Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Data breach litigations rarely make it to motions for class certification. This trend makes each decision that does come out addressing class certification in the data breach context that much more interesting. Well, last week a federal court denied a plaintiff’s motion to certify a class in…
Category: Phishing
Cybercriminals are Bypassing Multi-factor Authentication to Access Organisation’s Cloud Services
Graham Cluley writes: The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to companies to better protect their cloud-based accounts after several recent successful attacks. According to an advisory published by CISA, an increasing number of attacks have succeeded as more employees have begun to work remotely with a variety…
Jefferson Healthcare hit by ‘phishing’ cyber attack
Brian Kelley reports: The personal information of roughly 2,550 people was compromised by a “phishing” attack on the email account of an employee at Jefferson Healthcare, the organization announced Monday. The information stolen may have included the full names of individuals, as well as their dates of birth, phone numbers, home addresses, and health insurance…
GoDaddy cold-hearted phishing exercise got employees’ hopes up — only to dash them
GoDaddy really f***ed up. There’s simply no other way to put it even though they try to justify it by saying that they mimicked really forces in play these days. On December 23, Lorraine Longhi tweeted: With the holidays around the corner, GoDaddy employees received an email last week offering some welcome financial relief: a…
MEDNAX Services notifies patients of data breach
Another business associate under HIPAA has disclosed a breach. You may not recognize their name, but they may handle your medical group’s billing or other functions, so if you get a letter from “MEDNAX,” don’t just assume it’s a scam. Florida-headquartered MEDNAX Services, Inc provides revenue cycle management and other administrative services to physician groups. …
New York State warns motorists of phishing scam asking for personal information
This one’s local, so…. The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is alerting consumers after several New Yorkers reported receiving phishing texts asking for personal information. Posted: Dec 11, 2020 10:43 AM Updated: Dec 11, 2020 10:49 AM Posted By: WKTV You can see examples of the phishing messages and get more information on…