On May 10, DataBreaches.net broke the story of a medical collection agency breach involving American Medical Collection Agency. The breach had been discovered by Gemini Advisory, who informed this site that they had found approximately 200,000 patients’ payment card info for sale on a well-known marketplace. The cards had apparently been compromised between September, 2018…
Category: Of Note
GandCrab ransomware operation says it’s shutting down
Does Hallmark have a card suitable for this? Catalin Cimpanu reports: The creators of the GandCrab ransomware announced yesterday they were shutting down their Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, ZDNet has learned. […] “We successfully cashed this money and legalized it in various spheres of white business both in real life and on the Internet,” the GandCrab…
Utah knew the company it picked to create standardized tests had a history of crashes and cyberattacks. It signed a $44 million contract with Questar anyway.
Courtney Tanner reports: In other states, the year-end tests were marked by glitches and cyberattacks and hourlong delays. One school district threw out its results because the software was so unreliable. In another, all of the students had to start over when the programming shut down and didn’t save their responses. Sensitive student data was…
It’s been a strange week, Part 2. An open letter to Twitter.
This was a strange week. It started off great, but then, there I was in a private (DM) conversation on Twitter with Chris Vickery, and alluva sudden, I get a message that my Twitter account was suspended. I refreshed the screen and got the same message. I logged out, logged back in, and was still…
Legislative Roundup: New Laws Passed in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Maryland That Revise Cyber Security Measures
Steven Erkel and Kaeley Brown of Alston & Bird write: Arkansas In April, Arkansas’ Governor signed H.B. 1943 as Act 1030 expanding the scope of personal information, as used in the Personal Information Protection Act, to include “biometric data.” The Bill defines “biometric data” as “data generated by automatic measurements of an individual’s biological characteristics,…
Google disables Baltimore’s Gmail accounts used during ransomware recovery over mistaken security concern
Ian Duncan reports on how your emergency backup might fail for reasons you didn’t anticipate, perhaps. Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials as a workaround while the city recovers from a ransomware attack were disabled because the creation of a large number of new accounts in one place triggered Google’s automated security system, a spokesman…