I fear that numbers on privacy breaches and data breaches stemming from COVID19 or involving COVID19 data are going to be staggering this year. Karina Elwood and Cindy Krischer Goodman report: When Elizabeth Spinelli arrived at Fort Lauderdale’s Holiday Park for a coronavirus test, a nurse handed her a form to write her name, address,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Law-enforcement investigating possible leak of data of Armenia’s coronavirus patients
Siranush Ghazanchyan of Public Radio of Armenia reports that Armenian law enforcement is investigating reports on leaked data of coronavirus patients and their contacts. Information security and media expert Samvel Martirosyan said earlier that Azerbaijani hackers had published data of about 3,500 Armenian citizens (people infected with Covid-19 and their contacts). Like many countries, Armenia…
Russia says Germany has not provided any evidence of Bundestag hack
Earlier this week, I linked to an item stating that Germany is urging its fellow European Union governments to impose the bloc’s first-ever sanctions for hacking. The incident involved Dmitri Badin, a Russian suspect in the 2015 cyberattack on the German parliament. Catalin Cimpanu subsequently reported: Russian officials said this week that German authorities have…
BST sued by Community Care customers over Maze ransomware attack
Larry Rulison reports: Lawyers for patients of Community Care Physicians that were victimized by a cyber ransomware attack last December are suing the accounting firm that the medical practice hired to protect its customer data, some of which was published online. The class-action lawsuit was filed in state Supreme Court in Albany last month against …
NY: Council Demands Investigation Into NYPD Privacy Breach
Brigid Bergin reports: The City Council wants investigations into recent privacy breaches from the NYPD, including the release last weekend of the arrest record of Chiara de Blasio, the mayor’s daughter. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Council member Ritchie Torres made the request to both the city’s Department of Investigation and the Conflicts of…
Maze Promotes Other Gang’s Stolen Data On Its Darknet Site
Doug Olenick reports: The Maze ransomware gang is hosting and promoting data stolen by other ransomware operators on its “Maze News” website, according to IBM researchers, who are concerned this could be a sign of growing collaboration among cybercrime groups. IBM’s X-Force IRIS team, which has been tracking Maze, tells Information Security Media Group that…