Reuters reports: Australia will introduce laws to parliament to increase penalties for companies subject to major data breaches, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said, after high-profile cyberattacks hit millions of Australians in recent weeks. […] Dreyfus, in an official statement issued on Saturday, said the government would next week move to “significantly increase penalties for repeated or serious privacy…
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Computer hacker of famous musicians’ digital accounts is jailed
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service issued the following press release today: A computer hacker who stole unreleased music from famous musicians and sold them on the dark web in exchange for cryptocurrency has today been imprisoned. Adrian Kwiatkowski (DOB: 11/10/1999) offered to sell two unreleased songs by British pop star, Ed Sheeran and 12 unreleased…
Cybersecurity Frameworks: What K-12 Leaders Need to Know
The K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX) is pleased to release “Cybersecurity Frameworks: What K-12 Leaders Need to Know,” a new resource for state and local education leaders encouraging the adoption of nationally recognized cybersecurity best practices. This white paper, commissioned by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) as part of the work of…
Brazil arrests suspect linked to the Lapsus$ hacking group
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested a Brazilian suspect in Feira de Santana, Bahia, believed to be part of the Lapsus$ extortion gang. The suspect was detained following an investigation started in December 2021 after last year’s breach of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Read more at BleepingComputer. Related: Statement from the Brazilian…
New York Department of Financial Services settles charges against EyeMed with a $4.5 million penalty and remedial cybersecurity plan
In January 2022, DataBreaches reported that New York announced a $600,000 agreement with EyeMed that resolved a 2020 phishing incident that compromised the personal information of approximately 2.1 million consumers nationwide, including 98,632 in New York. But that was not the end of enforcement action and monetary penalties for EyeMed. Now the state’s Department of…
A Data Breach Is Bad, But Disclosing Too Much Could be Worse
Adam Stone reports: When state and local IT systems get breached, there’s a balancing act to be struck. How much can and should the public be told? Some advocates of transparency and accountability say anything that happens in the public realm ought to be public knowledge. On the opposite extreme, some IT leaders worry that…