Abigail Adcox reports: U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta of the District of Columbia has ruled that Covington & Burling must disclose to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission the names of seven clients whose information may have been exposed in a 2020 cyberattack that impacted the firm. “Covington shall produce to the Commission the names…
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Law Firm Hack Affects Victims of an Earlier Breach Again
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A global law firm is notifying nearly 153,000 individuals of a hacking incident that compromised several client files. The files contained sensitive personal information and affects vision care patients who had been victims of a breach three years ago. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on July 20 reported the data breach to…
Pointed to a phishing campaign targeting the healthcare sector, Microsoft leaps into action to … not even investigate?!
The relaxing Sunday I was looking forward to did not quite work out as planned. Dutch researcher and all-around good-guy Jelle Ursem (aka @SchizoDuckie) got in touch with me about what appeared to him to be a sketchy site allegedly by a well-known prescription management entity. After a few minutes of checking, there was no…
Buckingham County Public Schools notifies 86 students after a business email account was compromised
Buckingham County Public Schools in Virginia has sent notifications to parents of 86 students after a compromise of a district’s business email account. The incident occurred on June 20. Information in the email account included the student’s name “coupled with a limited amount of health or medical diagnostic and treatment information, and/or address. Examples typical…
‘It feels like a digital hurricane’: Coastal Mississippi county recovering from ransomware attack
Jonathan Greig reports: A coastal Mississippi county is in the process of recovering from a wide-ranging ransomware attack that took down nearly all of the government’s in-office computers. Nestled right along the border with Alabama, George County is the quiet home to more than 25,000 people. But the local government was thrown into chaos this…
VirusTotal: We’re sorry someone fat-fingered and exposed 5,600 users
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: VirusTotal today issued a mea culpa, saying a blunder earlier this week by one of its staff exposed information belonging to 5,600 customers, including the email addresses of US Cyber Command, FBI, and NSA employees. The unintentional leak was due to the layer-eight problem; human error. On June 29, an employee accidentally uploaded…