Catalin Cimpanu reports: One of the three operators of WeLeakInfo, a website that sold access to hacked databases, was sentenced today in the Netherlands to two years in prison, with one year suspended. In court proceedings that took place earlier this year, the suspect, a 23-year-old whose name was not released, admitted to managing the…
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PA: Acting Secretary Of Health And Deputy Don’t Testify At Contact Tracing Data Breach Hearing
Meghan Schiller reports: t’s a battle between transparency and legal quagmire: who should answer questions about the data breach of private health information for some 70,000 Pennsylvanians? KDKA’s Meghan Schiller talked to one local state senator who tried to get the conversation started but said it ended in silence. “It’s great to ask questions that…
Now ransomware is inundating public school systems
Robert R. Ackerman Jr. reports: Almost every American adult knows that cyberattacks and breaches are ubiquitous and have primarily targeted companies and government entities. They might even know that the single most common breach these days is ransomware, a malicious process by which hackers dismantle computer systems and don’t fix them until a ransom is…
“We are apolitical” — DarkSide threat actors
By now, probably everyone has heard about the Colonial Pipeline security incident that has been linked to threat actors known as DarkSide. On April 12, this site published an email chat with DarkSide. If you missed that chat write-up, you can read it here. On May 8, after the mainstream media reported that the Colonial…
OCR Investigator: Goal Is to Uncover ‘Root Cause,’ Remedy Harm From Violations
If you haven’t read it already, do read Theresa Defino’s excellent report from HCCA Compliance’s Report on Patient Privacy on JDSupra. It may be one of the most interesting — and most frustrating — reports I’ve read about OCR investigations. Why did I find it frustrating, you might wonder? Because of the lack of any…
In Capital One Data Breach Litigation Federal Judge Grants Capital One’s Motion To Certify Question to Virginia Supreme Court
Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: CPW [Consumer Privacy World] has been tracking since last year the Capital One data breach multidistrict litigation (remember that privilege ruling?). Well, today the federal judge overseeing the litigation granted Capital One’s motion to certify to the Virginia Supreme Court a question of whether there exists under Virginia…