Yesterday, Mandiant issued its final report on its investigation into the Accellion data breach that impacted a number of its big clients including Jones Day law firm, SingTel, Bombardier, Goodwin Procter, the Transport for NSW, the New Zealand Reserve Bank, and others. You can find the report here (pdf). And while the investigation may be…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Updating the Maze attack on Fairfax County Public Schools
In September, 2020 Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia was hit with Maze ransomware.The attack was announced on Maze’s dedicated leak site in early September, and after multiple queries by this site, FCPS issued a statement confirming that they had been attacked. One month later, the threat actors started dumping some data on their leak…
Who Has Standing in a Data Breach Litigation? In The Third Circuit, Fear of Speculative Future Harm Still Doesn’t Cut It
Aaron Garavaglia and Kristin Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs write: As the number of data breaches continue to rise, so too will the number of lawsuits filed. As CPW previously reported, the number of data breaches in 2020 was more than double that of 2019. One can only wonder what 2021 will bring. Yet with this increase in…
PH: Civil Service Commission data breach, thousands of user details exposed
Art Samaniego reports: A hacker who calls himself IamNoobie told me that he was so pissed-off with the way government agencies implement security in their websites and servers that he decided to “take matters into his own keyboard”. IamNoobie noticed that the server of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has promising results when he Google…
Universal Health Services lost $67 million in cyberattack recovery
Ginger Christ reports: Universal Health Services said Thursday that the company lost $67 million in the second half of 2020 as a result of a September cyberattack. The Sept. 29 malware attack caused King of Prussia, Pa.-based UHS to temporarily take all of its U.S. information technology networks offline, including systems for medical records, laboratories and pharmacies. Servers…
Et tu, Canada? Evidence of Harm Required To Advance Class Action Following Data Breach
Ranjan Agarwal, Keely Cameron, J. Sébastien A. Gittens, and Justin Lambert of Bennett Jones write: Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm or loss. This class…