Christopher P. Hahn. writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California recently dismissed a consumer’s putative class action lawsuit against a mortgage lending and servicing company for purported damages sustained as a result of a security breach wherein his personal information was compromised, and the hackers attempted to open credit cards in…
Category: Of Note
Florida contractor physicians’ group settles HHS claims after they failed to have a BA agreement in place with a vendor who had a breach
There is a follow-up to a 2014 breach reported on this site at the time. But it turns out there was an interesting twist to this case that HHS followed up. Here is their press release: Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the…
California-based professional employer organization hacked by TheDarkOverlord; thousands of employees’ files stolen
TheDarkOverlord (TDO) has been busy, it seems. In the past month or so, the hackers – who have seemingly managed to continue to evade capture by law enforcement – have revealed a number of hacks never previously disclosed by them. Earlier today, DataBreaches.net reported on TDO’s hack of Caribbean Island Properties. But at the same…
Caribbean Island Properties “pillaged” by TheDarkOverlord
In recent months, we’ve seen the return of threat actors calling themselves TheDarkOverlord (TDO), although some sources have speculated that arrests announced in May may have damaged the group. As some journalists and others have noted in conversations, certainly this incarnation of TDO does not seem to know of some events or statements they’ve made…
Judge Orders Software Exec to Turn Over Laptop After He Leaked Data on Facebook
Kartikay Mehrotra reports: The co-founder of a software company was ordered by a judge to surrender his laptop to a forensic expert after admitting he turned over confidential documents about Facebook Inc. to the U.K. Parliament in violation of a U.S. court order. Sensitive internal Facebook records that were supposed to remain sealed in a…
The US Leans on Private Firms to Expose Foreign Hackers
William G. Rich reports: When the Democratic National Committee realized they had been hacked in April 2016, they turned to experts from a private company: the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Within a day, the company had identified two Russian state-sponsored hacking groups inside the DNC network. Within a few weeks, it publicly explained its analysis in a…