Ax Sharma reports: American Bank Systems (ABS), a company that provides services to U.S. financial institutions and banks helping them “operate efficiently and confidently in a rapidly evolving – highly regulated – environment” has been hit by a ransomware attack this month. Avaddon, the ransomware group behind the attack had earlier alleged they had acquired over…
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400 patient records lost after cabinet at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital mistakenly removed by contractor
Zoe Low reports: A filing cabinet containing more than 400 patient records was suspected to have been mistakenly disposed of by a contractor at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital last Friday. The locked four-drawer steel cabinet was used to store the service records of 442 elderly patients who had received “integrated care and discharge support”…
Three voters demand €10m fine for IT firm behind huge data breach
Claudia Calleja has an update on litigation following a voter data leak involving C-Planet IT Solutions Ltd. Three of the 337,384 Maltese voters whose data was leaked in a massive security breach in April, have filed a complaint with the Data Protection Authority requesting that the IT company that held the data be fined up…
Pell City notifies residents of vendor breach
On September 20, this site noted a breach impacting some residents of Pell City, Alabama. At that time, there were many unanswered questions based on the little the city had disclosed. Now they have published a press release that reveals that the breach involved their vendor, Technology Management Resources (TMR). The TMR breach had been…
Breach Lawsuit Spotlights Complex Vendor Issues
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports on a lawsuit that stems from a breach first reported on this site in March, 2019. She reports: A medical device maker has sued an IT vendor in the wake of an email server migration mishap that exposed the health data of more than 277,000 individuals. The case illustrates the complexities…
Cyber Consulting Firms Get Tied Up in Post-Breach Lawsuits
Jake Holland and Andrea Vittorio report: Cybersecurity consultants could be on the hook for data breaches at companies they contract with after two recent court rulings in consumer class actions. Accenture Plc’s U.S. unit in October failed to escape claims made against the consultant in a consumer lawsuit over a hack of Marriott International Inc.’s hotel reservations database….