Susan Morse reports: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation are mailing written notifications to 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information may have been compromised in a cyber breach. A security vulnerability was found in MOVEit software, a third-party application used in the transfer…
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FTC Takes Action Against Security Camera Firm Verkada over Charges it Failed to Secure Videos, Other Personal Data and Violated CAN-SPAM Act
August 30, 2024 – The Federal Trade Commission will require security camera firm Verkada to develop and implement a comprehensive information security program to settle allegations the company failed to use appropriate information security practices, which allowed a hacker to access customers’ security cameras. Under a proposed order, which must be approved by a federal…
Franklin County judge grants city request to suppress cyber expert’s efforts to warn public
Did the First Amendment get rescinded in Franklin County, Ohio? What the heck is going on there? Bill Bush of The Columbus Dispatch reports: A Franklin County judge on Thursday granted the city of Columbus a temporary restraining order against a cybersecurity expert who has been telling the media about the public impact of the…
Patelco notifies 726,000 customers of ransomware data breach
Bill Toulas reports: Patelco Credit Union warns customers it suffered a data breach after personal data was stolen in a RansomHub ransomware attack earlier this year. Though the organization did not name the attackers, the RansomHub gang claimed responsibility on August 15, 2024, when they published all of the stolen data on their extortion portal….
Alleged member of Karakurt extradited and charged in Ohio
Let’s start with the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Ohio: CINCINNATI – A member of a Russian cybercrime group has been charged federally and appeared in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati today. A federal grand jury indicted Deniss Zolotarjovs, 33, of Moscow, Russia, charging him with conspiring to…
Pulaski County Man Sentenced for Cyber Intrusion and Aggravated Identity Theft
LONDON, Ky. – A Somerset, Ky., man, Jesse Kipf, 39, was sentenced to 81 months on Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to his plea agreement, Kipf intentionally accessed a computer without authorization and then obtained information from a protected computer for his own private gain and…