Alaina Lancaster reports: More than 60,000 additional confidential attorney discipline records were exposed in a data breach of the State Bar of California’s case management system, according to an ongoing investigation. The bar’s IT incident response team and a third-party forensic firm calculated that more than 322,525 confidential records were available during the leak, compared to…
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Class action lawsuit against UKG over Kronos Private Cloud ransomware incident
A class action lawsuit has been filed in a California federal court against workplace management software company UKG Inc. UKG makes timekeeping and payroll management software and offers Kronos Private Cloud services. As a result of a ransomware attack in December, employees of the firm’s clients were not paid at all, were paid late, or…
Nespresso data leak in South Africa
Jan Vermeulen reports: South African Nespresso distributor Top Coffee has sent a notice to clients informing them that their names, phone numbers, and email addresses may have been leaked. According to the notice, the personal information may have been temporarily exposed through a third-party supplier. The distributor doesn’t believe that any customer financial information was…
Long delay before Cybersecurity NSW notified of Accellion hack
Anton Nilsson reports: NSW agencies may have delayed reporting a massive cyber attack to authorities for nearly a month, officials revealed on Monday. The breach of a software known as Accellion in December 2020 affected businesses and agencies worldwide, including Transport for NSW which had sensitive information stolen and posted on the dark web. Cybersecurity NSW…
PA lawmaker wants state to review entire process that led to company’s contact tracing data breach
Rick Earle reports: A state lawmaker has requested the auditor general review the entire process that led to the awarding of that $30 million contract with Insight Global to do contact tracking in Pennsylvania. State Rep. Jason Ortitay, a Republican from Bridgeville, told Target 11 Investigator Rick Earle that this may be the only way…
NSW driver’s licence data stolen in Accellion breach
Justin Hendry reports: Driver’s licence details were among the personal information stolen from Transport for NSW in the Accellion data breach last year, iTnews can reveal. It has also emerged that at least 500 customers and employees of the agency were impacted in the incident, some of which are only now being notified. TfNSW confirmed it…