The Fortra/GoAnywhere incident also affected Tasmanian school children. Emily Woods reports: Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed. Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their…
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NuLife Med settles class action lawsuit over March 2022 data breach
Top Class Actions reports that NuLife Med LLC has agreed to settle claims it failed to protect patient information in a March 2022 data breach. On May 9, the New Hampshire medical devices firm reported a breach to HHS that affected 81,244 patients. In their website notice, they noted that the types of personally identifiable…
Crossbow firm discloses data breach: crooks compromised credit card data
Jurgita Lapienytė reports: Killer Instinct, a company that trades high-tech modern adaptations of the archaic long-range weapon, has disclosed a data breach affecting over 800 users. The company filed a notification with the Maine Attorney General’s Office, saying threat actors obtained users’ financial account or credit/debit card numbers in combination with security, access code, password…
Reports continue to emerge from Community Health Systems entities affected by Fortra/GoAnywhere breach
The number of entities disclosing that they were affected by the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach continues to mount. Because a number of entities are part of CHSPSC, LLC (“CHSPSC”) DataBreaches wants to make readers aware of two notices: Community Health System’s security incident notice. and A map of CHSPSC locations so you can look at your state…
HIPAA Data Breach Costs Company Nearly $300,000 In DOJ False Claims Act Settlement
Stacy L. Cook and Iqra Mushtaq of Barnes & Thornburg LLP write: On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of a case involving alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) as a result of cybersecurity failures and breach of HIPAA-protected health information. Obtained under the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative, this settlement emphasizes…
Ukrainian Hackers Spend $25,000 of Russian Funds on Sex Toys
“The Filthy American” writes: The Ukrainian hacking collective, Cyber Resistance announced yesterday that it successfully hacked into the AliExpress account of pro-Russian mil blogger Mikhail Luchin. The blogger, who runs the “Misha From Donbas” Telegram channel, apparently had a significant amount of funds he had raised to purchase drones for Russian troops. Now, what exactly…