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…
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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…
Jamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline late on Thursday following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders on more than half a million travelers to the island. JamCOVID was set up last year to help the government process travelers arriving on the island. Quarantine orders are issued by the…
New tool reveals security and privacy issues with contact tracing apps
COVIDGuardian, the first automated security and privacy assessment tool, tests contact tracing apps for potential threats such as malware, embedded trackers and private information leakage. Using the COVIDGuardian tool, cybersecurity experts assessed 40 Covid-19 contact tracing apps that have been employed worldwide for potential privacy and security threats. Their findings include that: 72.5 per cent…