Cardiac biotelemetry firm BioTel seems to be issuing public notices about a data leak incident first reported on this site in August, 2020. The data were only secured when Amazon was contacted by a researcher and asked to reach out to their customer to secure the data. Neither BioTel nor its vendor had responded to…
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IA: Des Moines Area Community College investigating possible breach
Des Moines Area Community College reportedly discovered a security problem Wednesday which forced them to take some of their computer systems offline. Read about it on KCCI. Attempts to connect to DMACC this mornng returned a 503 error. Looking at their Twitter account, however, we find: UPDATE (6/3/21): #DMACC IT is currently working to restore…
MI: WMed warns 2,474 employees and beneficiaries enrolled in healthcare coverage of phishing incident
Brad Devereaux reports: WMed has alerted employees, former employees and their beneficiaries covered under employee healthcare coverage about a data security incident caused by phishing that exposed personal information. Someone within the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, or WMed, clicked on a “phishing” link in an email, which allowed outside access…
11th Circuit Upholds Historic $380 Million Equifax Data-Breach Settlement
Izzy Kapnick reports: A three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit on Thursday upheld the largest-ever U.S. class action settlement over a consumer data breach, rejecting a bevy of challenges to the $380 million deal. Finalized in January 2020, the settlement compensates U.S. consumers whose personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the credit bureau Equifax. The…
Document Leak Puts Ex-Treasury Official Away 6 Months
Emilee Larkin reports: A federal judge handed a six-month prison sentence Thursday to a former Treasury official who painted herself as a whistleblower for leaking government records about targets of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. “I understand she viewed herself as a whistleblower,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods said at the hearing this afternoon in Manhattan….
DOJ Announces New Guidance Tackling Ransomware Attacks
Kaila Philo reports that in the wake of some big ransomware attacks, DOJ has issued new guidance. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco released an internal memo late Thursday detailing new guidance on how to tackle cyber-attacks as a result. These recent ransomware attacks “underscore the growing threat that ransomware and digital extortion pose to the Nation, and…