How many times have the FBI and CISA urged entities NOT to pay ransom because it just encourages the attackers to attack more, while others suggest that a total ban would make things a lot worse? On January 14, the U.K. government opened a consultation, Ransomware legislative proposals: reducing payments to cyber criminals and increasing…
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving U.S. Army soldier in December to a massive theft of U.S. phone records from AT&T and Verizon last year. Authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius, a U.S. Army communications specialist, in Texas on December 20 following a brief two-page grand jury indictment accusing the U.S….
Jake Bleiberg and Margi Murphy FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the identities of confidential informants, a document reviewed by Bloomberg News shows. FBI officials told agents across the country that details…
In 2019, DataBreaches reported that Solara Medical Supplies in California was notifying more than 110,000 patients after an attacker gained access to some employees’ email accounts via phishing. Solara was subsequently sued and settled claims for $9.76 million. Now today, HHS OCR announced a settlement with Solara: Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Alexander Osipovich reports: Two brokerage units of Robinhood Markets agreed to pay $45 million to settle an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into a range of alleged violations, including one stemming from a 2021 data breach that exposed millions of customer names and emails. … In the November 2021 breach, email addresses for about…
UPDATE of January 16, 2025: I am stunned by the response to this post and the number of people asking me how they can file a claim or get help. This breach was in 2017. If you never filed a claim when the settlement was open for claims, it’s too late to file now. Read…