The Canadian Press reports: One day after announcing personal information on 2.9 million of its members had been illegally transferred to a third party, Mouvement Desjardins is being targeted by two class action suits. Filed Friday in Superior Court, one of the suits, filed by the law firm of Siskinds Desmeules on behalf of a…
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Ex-Senate aide sentenced to 4 years in prison for data leak
Matthew Daly of AP reports: A former congressional staffer was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican senators who backed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. Jackson A. Cosko, a former computer systems administrator in the office of Sen. Maggie…
Ransomware gang hacks MSPs to deploy ransomware on customer systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware gang has breached the infrastructure of at least three managed service providers (MSPs) and has used the remote management tools at their dispossal, namely the Webroot SecureAnywhere console, to deploy ransomware on the MSPs’ customers systems. The ransomware infections were first reported today in a Reddit section dedicated to MSPs…
Bithumb Hit with Data Leak Charges, Denies Link to Hack
Tim Alper reports: South Korea’s prosecution authorities have indicted Bithumb, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, accusing the platform of leaking sensitive financial data on around 31,000 of its customers. However, the company claims that the leak – which prosecutors say occurred in 2017 – and a hack worth some USD 6 million that…
AG James Backs Data Breach Protection Act Passed by Legislature
Jason Grant reports: State lawmakers have passed legislation that would “modernize” and update consumer data protections and expand New York Attorney General Letitia James’ oversight of data breaches affecting New Yorkers, according to a news release issued by James “applauding” the act’s passage. Called the “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act,” or SHIELD…
Now THIS is painful: PainMD tells bankruptcy court it lost access to its own patients’ records
OK, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a breach report quite like this one, so grab your favorite beverage and read what Brett Kelman reports on a company that ran into trouble with regulators and then filed for bankruptcy…. and in the process, managed to lose access to all their patients’ stored records because the…