Isaiah Poritz reports: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. won a preliminary injunction in California federal court against medical records company SureFile Filing Systems for attempting to sell patient data using Kaiser’s trademarks. Kaiser is likely to succeed on the merits of its breach of contract and common law trademark counterclaims against SureFile, Judge Mark C. Scarsi…
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Wawa wants a refund, says Mastercard owes $32 million for data breach penalties
Joseph N. DiStefano reports: Wawa, the Delaware County-based convenience store and gas station chain, paid $10.7 million last year linked to a 2019 breach of its customer payment security systems. But now it wants that money back — and more. On Monday in federal court in New York, Wawa sued Mastercard, the giant payment-card network,…
Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City Hit by Cybersecurity Attack Over Holiday Weekend
Seen at http://wycokck.org/: Published on April 19, 2022 UPDATE ON SERVICE IMPACTS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022 The Unified Government has been working through a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the recent cybersecurity attack on our systems and services. Work to restore services is underway. As of this afternoon, the following services are impacted: Appraiser’s…
Learning Opportunities from Ransomware and Redline Infostealer Events Inside America’s Universities
Britton White writes: After a university was recently hit with Ransomware, I decided to research the university’s domain name searching for any users who might have been hit with Redline Infostealer/Malware. To no surprise, I found many students had unknowingly had their saved browser credentials scraped (stolen/exfiltrated). It didn’t take long to find a student…
Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry
Brian Krebs reports: Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other…
Blue Earth County releases report on insider data breach that began in 2020
It seems like only yesterday that we were pointing to an insider-wrongdoing breach that involved people’s medical information. Oh right, it was. And here’s yet another one. Aaron Stuve reports: Blue Earth County has released information regarding a data breach from last year. The report said that an employee of the Human Services Department accessed…