We often hear of firms having their counsel running incident response and contracting of forensics, etc., so that any reports would be protected by work product doctrine as well as attorney-client privilege. But if the attorney doesn’t word the contract carefully, any report may not be covered by the doctrine. We saw that in a…
Category: Business Sector
De: Hidden crypto farm in Frankfurt restaurant exposed
Hessenchau reports: During hygiene checks in a Frankfurt restaurant, investigators came across a suspected crypto farm. This is not only illegal, but also dangerous in this case: the computers were next to gas bottles. While inspecting a restaurant in downtown Frankfurt, investigators from the city police came across a suspected crypto farm. It was literally…
AIG unit must defend Texas retailer Landry’s in data breach case
Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court reversed a lower court Wednesday and ruled an American International Group Inc. unit is obligated to defend a retailer in connection with a data breach. Houston-based Landry’s Inc., which operates retail properties including restaurants, hotels and casinos, discovered a data breach that occurred between May 2014 and December…
Gun owners’ fears after firearms dealer data breach
Holly Clemens & Chris Vallance report: Thousands of names and addresses belonging to UK customers of a leading website for buying and selling shotguns and rifles have been published to the dark web following a “security breach”. Guntrader.uk told the BBC it learned of the breach on Monday and had notified the Information Commissioner’s Office….
Za: Transnet reports disruption on its IT network, employees told to shut down
Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African rail, port and pipeline company. Today, they tweeted that they were experiencing a disruption: Transnet experiencing disruption on its IT network pic.twitter.com/bGwGweySL0 — Transnet SOC Ltd (@follow_transnet) July 22, 2021 Transnet experiencing disruption on its IT network [Johannesburg; 22 July 2021] Transnet Ltd SOC (“Transnet”) is currently…
Kaseya obtains universal decryptor for REvil ransomware victims
Lawrence Abrams reports: … Today, Kaseya has stated that they received a universal decryptor for the ransomware attack from a “trusted third party” and are now distributing it to affected customers. “We can confirm we obtained a decryptor from a trusted third party but can’t share anymore about the source,” Kaseya’s SVP Corporate Marketing Dana…