On April 30, 2023, DataBreaches reported an alleged data breach involving TorchByte (formerly known as Tic Hosting Solutions). At the time, DataBreaches had been unable to reach the firm, and the Romanian data protection authority informed DataBreaches that they had received no report from them of any breach. But the screenshots provided to this site…
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BakerHostetler Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of 30 Hospitals and Health Systems
BakerHostetler writes: As noted back in December 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued dramatic guidance (often called the Bulletin) that targets the use of so-called Internet “tracking technologies” on the public websites of HIPAA-covered entities. Fueled by this guidance, healthcare providers have faced a dual threat…
Facebook suffers big loss in lawsuit against data-scraping company
Jon Brodkin reports: One year after Meta sued a data-scraping company, a federal judge this week threw out Meta’s breach-of-contract claim because the defendant obtained only public data from Facebook and Instagram. Meta sued Bright Data in January 2023, making claims of breach of contract and tortious interference with contract. Bright Data is an Israeli company that collects data…
Owner of BreachedForums sentenced to time served plus 20 years supervised release with special conditions
Just days after prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia recommended that Conor Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” be sentenced to at least 15 years in prison, District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema sentenced him to time served and supervised release. As DataBreaches previously reported, Fitzpatrick, the owner of the first BreachedForums site, pleaded guilty in July to…
Four-in-ten employees sacked over email security breaches as firms tackle “truly staggering” increase in attacks
Emma Woollacott reports: Nearly half of workers responsible for email security breaches over the last year have been sacked, according to new search, as cyber leaders begin taking a tougher stance amid a surge in attacks. Research from cyber security firm Egress found that 94% of organizations globally have experienced a serious email security incident…
Follow-on extortion campaign: confirmation of some findings by Arctic Wolf
Bill Toulas of Bleeping Computer reported on a recent Arctic Wolf Labs investigation that caught my eye. Arctic Wolf investigated two cases where victims of the Royal and Akira ransomware gangs who had paid ransoms were subsequently approached by threat actors offering to help them by hacking into the server of the ransomware gangs to…