Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Conference of Mayors unanimously adopted yesterday a resolution not to pay any more ransom demands to hackers following ransomware infections. “Paying ransomware attackers encourages continued attacks on other government systems, as perpetrators financially benefit,” the adopted resolution reads. Read more on ZDNet.
Category: Of Note
Premera Blue Cross pays states $10 million over data breach (Updated)
Associated Press reports: Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. The settlement, negotiated with the Washington attorney general’s office and filed in…
Together at Last: Welcome, Lee Johnstone!
I am absolutely delighted to welcome Lee Johnstone as a contributor to DataBreaches.net. Lee – better known to some of you as @Cyber_War_News on Twitter – and I have teamed up over the past 8 years or so on a number of projects or analyses. As of today, Lee’s web site, cyberwarnews.info, has been imported…
ROMANIA: Romanian Data Protection Authority issues fine for inappropriate TOMs
Andrei Stoica of DLA Piper writes: Just days after proudly announcing its first fine under the GDPR, the Romanian Data Protection Authority has done it again: World Trade Center Bucharest S.A. must pay 15,000 euro for breaching the provisions of Art. 32 para. (4) GDPR corroborated with Art. 32 paras. (1) and (2) GDPR. What…
Ransomware Attacks Create Dilemma For Cities: Pay Up Or Resist?
Wade Goodwyn reports: It’s been a bad summer so far for government information systems. Hackers have used ransomware to attack the data networks of Baltimore, the Georgia courts system and Lake City, Fla., to name a few. And the decision as to whether to pay the extortionists ransom is fraught. Pay them, get the decryption…
Quebec, federal Privacy Commissioners investigate Desjardins breach
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, an announcement concerning the alleged rogue insider breach at a financial institution that impacted the personal information of more than 2.9 million of its members, including 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members. On July 8, the Commissioner announced: The Commission d’accès à l’information du…