Ionut Arghire reports: Global payment service provider Checkout.com has disclosed a data breach after a known hacking group attempted to extort it. The incident, Checkout says, involved a legacy, third-party cloud file storage system that had not been used since 2020, and did not affect its payment processing platform. “The system was used for internal…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Did you hear the one about the ransom victim who made a ransom installment payment after they were told that it wouldn’t be accepted?
Millicom describes itself as a leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications services dedicated to markets in Latin America. With headquarters in Luxembourg and Florida, the company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (TIGO). Through Tigo, Tigo Business, and its products and services such as Tigo Music, Tigo Sports, Tigo Money, and ONEtv, Millcom…
District of Massachusetts Allows Higher-Ed Student Data Breach Claims to Survive
Melanie A. Conroy of Pierce Atwood LLP writes: In a recent blog post, we explained how Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, LLC has become a touchstone for courts analyzing Article III standing in data breach class actions, citing Shea v. American International College as a recent example. This post explores the Shea decision in greater depth. On September 5, 2025, Judge Angel…
A jailed hacking kingpin reveals all about the gang that left a trail of destruction
Joe Tidy reports: After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him in a Colorado prison, I hear the door click open before I see him walk into the room. I stand up ready to give this former cyber-crime kingpin a professional hello. But, like a cheeky cartoon character, he…
Defense Contractors Are Silencing Their Cybersecurity Watchdogs
Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions
Alexander Busse, Jessica Fuhrman, Elizabeth Hudson, Ian Jones, Francis Nolan IV, and Valerie Strong Sanders of Eversheds Sutherland write: One of the hotly litigated issues in data breach class action litigation is whether plaintiffs in these actions have standing under Article III of the US Constitution. For a complaint to survive, the plaintiff must allege…