Mintz Levin has updated its convenient chart of state breach notification laws. Read more here. I’ve already downloaded my copy of their updated chart to keep on my desktop.
Category: Of Note
RESOURCE: Bryan Cave 2016 Data Breach Litigation Report
The law firm of Bryan Cave has issued its 2016 Data Breach Litigation Report. From their Executive Summary, some of their key findings: 83 cases were filed during the Period. This represents a nearly 25% decline in the quantity of cases filed as compared to the 2015 Data Breach Litigation Report (the “2015 Report”). When multiple filings against…
The security holes at the heart of the Panama Papers
James Temperton and Matt Burgess report: The front-end computer systems of Mossack Fonseca are outdated and riddled with security flaws, analysis has revealed. The law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers hack has shown an “astonishing” disregard for security, according to one expert. Amongst other lapses, Mossack Fonseca has failed to update its Outlook Web Access login…
Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings
Update: MedStar subsequently denied this report. See Ars Technica’s coverage of their response. Original story: Tami Abdollah reports: The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be…
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available…
The Panama Papers
“A quater (sic) of Iceland´s cabinet members held offshore companies – even the current prime minister. Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is suspected of having been influenced, also by personal interests in his fight against the banking crisis.” A new massive leak was revealed today. A storm is coming By Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer The interrogation…