On November 7, a relatively new user on a hacking forum offered data allegedly from Doctor Alliance for sale. According to the seller, there is 353 GB of data comprising 1,240,640 files. “Contact us on signal to negociate this ransom or all your data will be sold,” the seller warned. The ransom demand was listed…
Category: U.S.
St. Thomas Brushed Off Red Flags Before Dark-Web Data Dump Rocks Houston
Elliott Greene reports: Hundreds of thousands of University of St. Thomas files have appeared on the dark web after a summer cyberattack that shut down campus systems and key services. Students, faculty, and alumni say they’ve received little information as experts and law enforcement work to find out what data was stolen, as reported by Houston…
Almost two years later, Alpha Omega Winery notifies those affected by a data breach.
Some wines benefit from aging. Breach notification letters do not. On or about December 28, 2023, Alpha Omega Winery in California experienced what they report as a ransomware incident. According to their notification, the types of personal information may have included, and potentially were not limited to: name, date of birth, Social Security number, driver’s…
Army gynecologist took secret videos of patients during intimate exams, lawsuit says
Courtney Kube reports: An Army gynecologist took secret intimate videos of a patient under his care at Fort Hood in Texas, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit says that the woman is believed to be one of scores who were preyed upon by Dr. Blaine McGraw and that Army leadership had allowed him to…
The Case for Making EdTech Companies Liable Under FERPA
Lavanya Sathyamurthy writes: Schools now depend on an average of 2,591 edtech tools in a single school year, according to one estimate. These tools can track private conversations between teachers and families and store comprehensive academic and personal records. Yet many companies do not clearly disclose how they collect and use student information. According to one nonprofit, 96% of apps used in…
Gates Down: Third Circuit Says Breaking Employer Computer Access Policies Is Not Hacking
Daniel P. O’Meara, Jeffrey D. Coren, and Zachary V. Zagger of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. write: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently ruled that violations of employers’ computer access policies do not constitute violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and that account passwords are…