HIPAA Journal reports: Protenus has released its 2019 Breach Barometer report: An analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 2018. The data for the report came from Databreaches.net, which tracks data breaches reported in the media as well as breach notifications sent to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
How Google Tracks Hackers
From Motherboard: …. Although Google’s own hacker hunting team is focused more on protecting Google users than selling a particular threat intelligence product, the task is essentially much the same; find the bad guys, understand what they’re doing, and let others know so users can be safer online. […] This week, CYBER host Ben Makuch talks…
A Closer Look: SEC’s Edgar Hacking Case
Craig A. Newman writes: Last month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged nine defendants with hacking into the agency’s EDGAR system – the online platform used by public companies for making their public filings – and stealing material nonpublic information to use for illegal trading purposes. While the charges are new, the insider trading…
Fla. Courts Require Actual Injury to Demonstrate Standing in Data Breach Cases
Nicole Rekant and Stevan Pardo write: The proliferation of data breach cases in Florida courts has focused on Article III standing. To meet the pleading standard under Article III, a plaintiff must allege sufficient facts to show the injury-in-fact is concrete, particularized, actual, and imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical. An allegation of imminent injury may suffice…
Standing in Data Breach Litigation: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Weigh In?
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Maya Atrakchi of Jackson Lewis write: … The U.S. Supreme Court may finally weigh in on the status of standing in data breach litigation this term, in Frank v. Gaos. The Court recently requested supplemental briefs addressing whether any of the name plaintiffs has standing such that federal courts have Article III…
Japenese Payment Card Fraud Contrasts with Regional Patterns – Gemini Advisory
Stas Alforov writes: Based on the proprietary Gemini Advisory telemetry data collected from various dark web sources over several years, we have determined that in 2018, nearly 1.4 million cards were compromised in the East Asia region, nearly a 100% increase from 2017. Despite the overarching trend of increased fraud in East Asia, Japanese compromised…