Danny Mok reports: WhatsApp on Sunday dismissed a media report claiming that a database containing the mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million users, including almost 3 million from Hong Kong, was leaked and put up for sale, saying it had found no evidence of a data breach. The article by Cybernews, a research-based online publication,…
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In New Hampshire, school technology directors collaborate to protect student data
Eileen O’Grady reports that New Hampshire schools have pooled resources to hire someone who will negotiate with tech and app vendors to make sure that the contracts protect the schools and that contracts aren’t suddenly changed on them, etc. For the past three years, an alliance of school technology directors called the New Hampshire Student…
Massive Twitter data breach was far worse than reported, reveal security researchers
Ben Lovejoy reports: A massive Twitter data breach last year, exposing more than five million phone numbers and email addresses, was worse than initially reported. We’ve been shown evidence that the same security vulnerability was exploited by multiple bad actors, and the hacked data has been offered for sale on the dark web by several sources. It had previously been…
Community Health Network notifies patients of meta pixel breach
Community Health Network in Indiana has become the latest healthcare entity to notify patients that their protected health information was transmitted via trackers on their website from Google and Meta. Their FAQ page attempts to explain it in basic English and does a good job, but there’s no getting around this: Any individual who visited…
HC3 Alert on Lorenz Ransomware
HC3 has issued an alert about Lorenz ransomware. Lorenz threat actors have been mentioned on DataBreaches’ site several times since 2021. In one case they attacked and exfiltrated data of 500,000 patients of Wolfe Clinic in Iowa, and they recently posted data from Salud Family Health in Colorado. Salud has not yet reported a number…
Third Circuit Finds Standing for Victim of Data Breach, Citing ‘Imminent Harm’
Harris Freier and Avi R. Jerushalmy write: It comes as no surprise that cybersecurity is at the forefront of business owners’ minds across the globe. Corporate cyberattacks were at an all-time high last year, up 50% year over year. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reported in February that it is aware of ransomware incidents against 14…