From the ICO, this press release: A former 111 call centre advisor has been found guilty and fined for illegally accessing the medical records of a child and his family. Martin Swan, 56, from Pinner, London, worked as a service advisor at the NHS 111 call centre in Southall when he illegally accessed the records….
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information For Calendar Year 2021- HHS OCR
From their report: Summary OCR received 609 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, representing a decrease of 7% from the number of reports received in calendar year 2020. These reported breaches affected a total of approximately 37,182,558 individuals. The most commonly reported category of breaches was hacking, and the largest breach of this…
BD issues cybersecurity alert for hacking risk found in Alaris infusion pump software
Andrea Park reports: A vulnerability found in software used to monitor some of BD’s infusion pumps could potentially give hackers access to personal data stored in the system. BD posted a cybersecurity bulletin about the issue Thursday and said it has already notified the FDA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
Private Data Breach Litigation Comes of Age
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP write, in part: Companies face yet another major risk after a data breach—one which is increasing exponentially—data breach litigation brought by private plaintiffs, often in the form of class actions brought by sophisticated plaintiffs’ counsel who specialize in such cases. Private civil litigation is now a probability, not a…
Nice Try Tonto Team: How a nation-state APT attempted to attack Group-IB
Group-IB writes: In 2023, IT and cybersecurity companies remain one of the most attractive targets for cybercriminals, according to the latest threat report “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2022/2023”. The compromise of a vendor’s infrastructure opens up ample opportunities to penetrate the network further and gain access to a huge pool of data about the victim’s customers…
New MortalKombat ransomware and Laplas Clipper malware threats deployed in financially motivated campaign
Chetan Raghuprasad writes: Since December 2022, Cisco Talos has been observing an unidentified actor deploying two relatively new threats, the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware, to steal cryptocurrency from victims. Talos observed the actor scanning the internet for victim machines with an exposed remote desktop protocol (RDP)…