From Covington & Burling: The Washington Privacy Act stalled this April in the state’s House of Representatives, and will likely not reappear again for discussion until the 2020 legislative session. The bill overwhelmingly passed the Senate, but failed to come to a floor vote in the House of Representatives before the April 17th deadline for…
Category: Of Note
Eanes ISD Parents Outraged Over Tablet Security
Carolos Garcia reports: WEST LAKE HILLS, Texas — Meaghan Edwards keeps a close eye on how much screen time her kids get at home, but after a phone call back in March, she wants to limit screen time at school, too. “You’ve got to come here immediately something terrible has happened. Can you come to…
Lucy Security Simulated Phishing Template Used In Wipro Breach
Ray Schultz reports: Lucy Security Inc. says its Simulated Phishing template design was used in a recent data breach of Wipro, an IT outsourcing firm based in India. Hackers “downloaded and copied a simulated phishing template, as part of their attack, using their own code and servers to deliver the attacks,” states Colin Bastable, CEO…
FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators
Zack Whittaker reports: The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod, according to Israel’s Tel Aviv Police, which confirmed the arrests in a statement earlier in the day, Local…
Indiana sues Equifax over massive 2017 data breach
WANE reports: The state of Indiana has sued credit bureau Equifax for a 2017 data breach that left 147.9 million Americas, including 3.9 million Hoosiers, compromised. […]The state argued in its lawsuit that Equifax used cost-cutting measures like outsourcing mission-critical systems. The company failed to improve security and instead chose to increase revenue, the lawsuit…
Tennessee diagnostic medical imaging services company pays $3,000,000 to settle breach exposing over 300,000 patients’ protected health information
There’s an update to a case I’ve been following on this blog since 2014. From HHS, this announcement: Touchstone Medical Imaging (“Touchstone”) has agreed to pay $3,000,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and to adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential violations…