Ron Hurtibise reports: Hundreds of customers of ADT Security Services were spied on through security cameras installed inside and outside of their homes, two federal lawsuits filed Monday are claiming. ADT, headquartered in Boca Raton, “failed to provide rudimentary safeguards” to prevent an employee from gaining remote access to the customers’ cameras over a seven-year period,…
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PA: Ex-Geisinger employee accessed hundreds of patients’ info improperly
From their notice of May 18: WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center has notified certain patients that their protected health information (PHI) may have been accessed by an individual employee in a non-permitted manner. On March 20, 2020, Geisinger’s Privacy Office was alerted to a Geisinger Wyoming Valley employee possibly accessing medical records without…
REvil claims to have sold Trump-related material to unnamed buyer
The Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware team that attacked the entertainment law firm of Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks have certainly gotten media attention for this attack. In their first notice of the attack, they listed some of the celebrity clients, showed screenshots of some directory of files, and provided snippets from some celebrity-related files. But then negotiations…
Capital One Judge Skeptical That Breach Report Is Privileged
Law360 reports: A Virginia federal magistrate judge tackling discovery issues in the sprawling litigation over Capital One’s massive 2019 data breach appeared unconvinced during a hearing Friday morning that consumers suing the bank are barred from seeing a cybersecurity firm’s report on the event. Consumers within the multidistrict litigation are pushing to get hold of an incident…
REvil responds to Grubman Shire law firm: “We will get the money”
A ransomware team that locked up the files of entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks after stealing copies of the files has responded to reactions to their demand for $42 million to unlock the files and to prevent the attackers from releasing the firm’s files about President Trump. The attackers claim that the…
Arkansas Division of Workforce Services shut down portal after programmer discovers it put applicants’ data at risk
AP reports: A state program that was created to process unemployment applications in Arkansas for self-employed individuals or gig economy workers appears to have been illegally accessed and has been shut down, officials announced Saturday. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he learned Friday evening that an applicant for the program is believed to have somehow accessed…