Reuters reports: British Airways has settled a case brought by customers and staff affected by a massive 2018 data breach that led to personal information being leaked, the court-appointed lead solicitors in the case said on Tuesday. Law firm PGMBM said those affected by the data leak would receive a confidential settlement following mediation with…
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Pk: Sindh High Court Website Hacked By Indian Hackers
Usman Aslam reports: In recent news, the official website of the Sindh High Court was hacked by a group of hackers known as the ‘Indian Cyber Troops’. The hackers had claimed the website on Sunday before it was recovered. In regards to this hacking, the officials of the SHC did not place a comment at…
Insurer Dominion National settles for $2 million in data breach lawsuit
Ax Sharma reports a settlement in litigation over a breach that was disclosed in 2019 but presumably began in 2010. Dominion National, Virginia-based insurance provider of dental and vision health benefits has reached settlement in the class action lawsuit concerning the decade-old data breach that exposed sensitive customer information of over 2.9 million patients. Although…
FBI, NSA: Russian military cyber-unit behind large-scale brute-force attacks
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world. The attacks have been linked to a hacking group tracked as APT28, or Fancy Bear, in a…
IA: Peoples Community Health Clinic notifying patients after discovering compromise of employee email account
Peoples Community Health Clinic in Iowa has been notifying some patients as a result of an employee’s email account being compromised. As explained in their press release*, on March 22, 2021, PCHC became aware of suspicious activity related to an employee’s email account. An investigation revealed that between March 18, 2021 and March 22, 2021,…
Facebook sues four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Social networking giant Facebook has filed two lawsuits today against two suspected criminal groups that abused its advertising platform for their own gains. The first lawsuit was filed against four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking user accounts and the second against a US company for running an e-commerce bait-and-switch scam. Read more on…