Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore include the following: Directions were issued to Crawfort Pte to conduct a security audit of its technical and administrative arrangements for its AWS S3 environment and rectify any security gaps identified in the audit report. This is pursuant to a data breach incident where Crawfort’s customer…
Category: Subcontractor
200,000 Colorado Springs Utilities notified after unauthorized data access of subcontractor’s system
Ashley Eberhardt reports: Colorado Springs Utilities said in an email to customers that sensitive data stored by a subcontractor had been accessed by an “unauthorized party” in June. In the email sent out on Wednesday, Springs Utilities said they learned of the breach on July 6, and that the breach occurred on June 15, 2022….
Razer sues IT firm Capgemini for over US$7m, wants full compensation for data leak
Clement Ooi reports: The civil suit between local gaming products company Razer and IT solutions provider Capgemini began in Singapore’s High Court today (Jul 13) Last year, Razer discovered a cybersecurity breach that revealed that the personal information of about 100,000 Razer customers could have been exposed. While no sensitive data such as credit card…
Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC discloses vendor breach. Can you guess which vendor?
One of the breach notices that showed up in routine searches this morning was from Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC (“AEC”). The first sentence of the notification letter was: We are contacting you to inform you of a data incident experienced by a third-party vendor for Associated Eye Care Partners, LLC (“AEC”). My mind…
More details emerge on Professional Finance Company ransomware incident, but questions remain
A ransomware attack on Professional Finance Company (PFC) has some of us who track breaches in the healthcare sector wondering how large this breach will be. The last time we saw a big breach involving a collection agency was in 2019. The American Medical Collection Agency filed for bankruptcy pretty quickly and the total number…
$63 Million OPM Data Breach Settlement Proposed
From the official settlement website at https://www.opmdatabreach.com/: OPM Data Breach Settlement In re: U.S. Office of Personnel Management Data Security Breach Litigation, No. 15-1394 (ABJ) (D.D.C.). If You Were Subject to the Data Breaches of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Its Contractor (Peraton Risk Decision Inc.), and You Experienced an Out-of-Pocket Loss After…