Kristin L. Bryan and Katie Sharpless of Squire Patton Boggs write: CPW has been covering data breach litigations, including instances in which meritless claims are kicked by courts at the pleading stage. A recent decision from an Ohio district court is yet another example of this trend. Newman v. Total Quality Logistics, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS…
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CZ: Asbis hit by ransomware, working to recover
Matěj Čuchna reports (translation): The Czech branch of Asbis is recovering from a ransomware attack in which data was stolen and internal systems were paralyzed. The ransomware attack was carried out by a group of hackers organized in early April. It has managed to steal and encrypt internal data and now threatens to publish it…
ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users
Brian Krebs reports: Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. The stolen data includes customer email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, license plate numbers, hashed passwords and mailing addresses. KrebsOnSecurity first heard about the breach from Gemini Advisory, a New York City based…
JP: Capcom confirms no credit card information was accessed during ransomware attack
Marie Dealessandri has an update to a ransomware incident involving Japanese gaming giant Capcom that was reported last year. The firm published its fourth update and a very detailed one. As Dealessandri reports: In a long statement on its website, the Japanese publisher indicated that its “internal systems are near to completely restored” and that it’s…
UK: Arup staff hit by cyberhacker attack at payroll provider
This one had first been reported on April 7 by Richard Waite: Engineering and architecture giant Arup has become the latest victim of a ransomware cyber attack […] According to data breach specialist CEL Solicitors, Arup employees had their personal details, including bank details, address and name, compromised following the attack. It says it has…
‘This was not a breach’: How Big Tech gaslights the world on data leaks
Vincent Manancourt and Laurens Cerulus report: First Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Now Clubhouse. After data on a combined billion Facebook and LinkedIn users appeared online last week, reports surfaced over the weekend that upstart social network Clubhouse had also leaked reams of user information. But if you think any of the above is a problem, Big Tech has…