Matilda Battersby reports: A housing association’s broker has been found liable for “breach of duty” in a landmark High Court judgment. Watford Community Housing (WCH) brought a professional negligence claim against Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers for failing to make “timely notifications” of a data breach to one of three of its insurers. Deputy High…
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DOGE Sued Over Record Keeping, Failing to Reply to FOIA Requests
If breaches or insider wrongdoing by DOGE employees are suspected, DOGE’s alleged failure to maintain and make transparent required records makes investigation nearly impossible or actually impossible. Mallory Culhane reports: The Department of Government Efficiency and top Trump administration officials are being sued over the agency’s alleged violations of federal record-keeping and transparency laws. DOGE…
Blue Shield of California shared the health data of 4.7 million people with Google for years
Jonathan Greig reports: The sensitive healthcare information of millions in the U.S. has been leaked through data breaches that multiple insurance companies, clinics, hospitals and more reported recently. The largest involves Blue Shield of California, which informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of an incident impacting 4.7 million people. In breach notification…
DOGE Ransomware Hackers Demand $1 Trillion
Davey Winder reports: The same criminal group behind the DOGE Big Balls ransomware attack has just upped the ante. A newly updated ransom note sent to victims is now trolling Elon Musk and DOGE with a demand for, are you sitting down, one trillion dollars. … The ransomware group behind the recent DOGE Big Balls threat, using…
British law firm fined after ransomware group publishes confidential client data
Alexander Martin reports: A British law firm has been fined £60,000 ($80,000) after cybercriminals accessed the company’s case management system and published sensitive information on the dark web, something the company only learned about after being contacted by the National Crime Agency. DPP Law, based in Bootle, was found to have breached the United Kingdom’s…
Hacking group Anonymous targets Russia, releases Trump files
Update: As predicted previously, this one has been debunked already, it seems. See https://www.dailydot.com/debug/anonymous-10tb-leak-russia-trump-debunk/ Thanks to the reader who sent in this link. Original post: The Express Tribune reports: Hacking group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a large-scale cyberattack on Russian networks, releasing what it says is 10 terabytes of leaked data containing sensitive information…