Alexandra Jones reports: The Supreme Court unanimously shot down the government’s broad reading of identity theft law Thursday in a decision that will shorten the prison sentence of an Austin psychologist who defrauded Medicaid. “While the Government represents that prosecutors will act responsibly in charging defendants under its sweeping reading, this Court ‘cannot construe a…
Category: Of Note
Data on as many as 100,000 Nova Scotia healthcare staff stolen in MOVEit breach
As most people know by now, there are a LOT of victims from Clop’s attack on Progress MoveIT. So many, in fact, that they posted an announcement to all victims, giving the victims until June 14 to contact Clop to negotiate payment to delete data. The Boots pharmacy chain in the U.K. was affected, but…
The 2023 Verizon DBIR is out — get your copy now
Verizon’s top-notch annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is out. You can jump to the Executive Summary of the report, download the entire report, or view it online. Here is its seven key insights infographic, below. Of the seven key insights, the figure that stands out the most to me is 74%: 74% of all…
Update on GLBA Safeguards Rule in Higher Education
Benjamin Wanger and Pierce T. Cox of BakerHostetler write: On February 9, 2023, the Department of Education Office of Federal Student Aid (“FSA”) issued an electronic notice regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule amending the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (“Safeguards Rule”) under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). The amendments to the Safeguards Rule, which go into…
Hong Kong privacy watchdog warns data management firm over possible exposure of credit histories of 180,000 people
Sammy Heung reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has threatened to take legal action against a data management firm for failing to protect the credit histories of about 180,000 people from unauthorised access. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data on Thursday said it received a complaint in December 2021 from an individual who…
Developing: RaidForums users db leaked
In what is likely making some people a bit nervous, the users database for RaidForums has been leaked on a forum. The database appears to date to September 2020. It contains entries for the site owner, Omnipotent, as well as moderators, and well-known users. DataBreaches spot-checked the database and found individuals with their known…