Scott Carroll reports: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Thursday announced a lawsuit against the defunct Eastern Ozarks Regional Health for failing to protect sensitive patient information after it closed. The former hospital in Cherokee Village is accused of leaving behind thousands of unsecured patient and employee records that contain social security numbers, driver’s license…
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Ireland’s privacy watchdog sued for inaction over ‘massive Google data breach’
Natasha Lomas reports: Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a new lawsuit — which accuses the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of years of inaction over what the complainants assert is “the largest…
Dominican Republic hackers steal US$2.7M in welfare cards
DT reports: Santo Domingo.- Tens of thousands of beneficiaries of the government aid social program of the Presidency of the Republic, Supérate, have not received their respective subsidies due to the cloning of at least 30,000 ID cards worth US$2.7 million in the southern region and the province Santo Domingo during the month of February….
Credit Suisse denies wrongdoing after big banking data leak
BBC reports: Credit Suisse has hit out after a massive data leak has brought to light the hidden wealth of several clients of the bank. Data on more than 18,000 bank accounts, holding more than $100bn (£73.6bn), was leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung by a whistleblower. It includes personal, shared and corporate accounts, as well as…
Ukrainian defense ministry hit by DDoS during tense standoff with Russia
Corin Faife reports: On Tuesday, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence suffered from a DDoS attack that prevented users from accessing its website, and two Ukrainian banks lost access to online banking services, according to statements from the government. In a tweet posted at around 7PM local time (12PM ET), the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said that its website…
Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day
Bill Toulas reports: … As revealed, the institution’s site was hit by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack which aims to overwhelm a website with high volumes of “garbage” traffic and a large number of bogus connection requests. This action depletes the available server resources and renders the website unable to serve real visitors,…