Yesterday, DataBreaches received a phone call from an employee at St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The employee was asking if we knew anything about a cyberattack on Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) and stated that everything had been down for two days but the employees were not really being given information other than…
Category: Of Note
Fourth Circuit Decision in Marriott Data Breach Case Kicks the Can Down the Road
Cindy Cohn of EFF writes: When a company that collected your personal data negligently fails to secure it, you should have accountability and relief—including standing to sue. EFF and our friends at Electronic Privacy Information Center filed an amicus brief in late November pointing this out to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in…
Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Threatens to be an Expansive Global Surveillance Pact
Katitza Rodriguez of EFF writes: In the heart of New York City, a watershed moment for protecting users against unfettered government surveillance is unfolding at the sixth session of negotiations to formulate the UN Cybercrime Convention. Delegates from Member States have convened at UN Headquarters for talks this week and next that will shape the digital and…
Joint statement on data scraping and data protection
The Information Commissioner’s Office and eleven other data protection and privacy authorities from around the world have today published a joint statement calling for the protection of people’s personal data from unlawful data scraping taking place on social media sites. Data scraping is an automated way to pull large amounts of information from the web. Scraping from…
Lapsus$: court finds teenagers carried out hacking spree
Joe Tidy reports: A court has found an 18-year-old from Oxford was a part of an international cyber-crime gang responsible for a hacking spree against major tech firms Arion Kurtaj was a key member of the Lapsus$ group which hacked the likes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games. A court heard Kurtaj leaked clips of…
SEC Cybersecurity Rule Leans on Materiality and Reasonableness
Rachel V. Rose, Ted Dziekanowski, and Andy Watkin-Child report: The US Securities and Exchange Commission released its final rule, effective Sept. 5, 2023, on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure. Investors, registrants, and other market participants should take special notice of two key terms in the regulations: “materiality” and the “reasonable investor.” The SEC…