Update: The Washington Post, who broke the story, updated their coverage to indicate that the threat actors are DarkSide. DataBreaches.net, who had recently interviewed DarkSide, reached out to ask them for a comment about the Colonial Pipeline report. They politely responded “Hello, no comments,” but then immediately sent another reply explaining, “At the time of…
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In Capital One Data Breach Litigation Federal Judge Grants Capital One’s Motion To Certify Question to Virginia Supreme Court
Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: CPW [Consumer Privacy World] has been tracking since last year the Capital One data breach multidistrict litigation (remember that privilege ruling?). Well, today the federal judge overseeing the litigation granted Capital One’s motion to certify to the Virginia Supreme Court a question of whether there exists under Virginia…
Massive hack exposes emails from top Lightfoot officials
Tom Schuba reports: A massive cache of tens of thousands of hacked emails detailing the inner workings of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration was leaked to the public last month apparently in response to the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. The emails were posted online on April 19 by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a…
San Diego Family Care discloses possible data breach
City News Service reports: San Diego Family Care announced Friday it has alerted current and former patients and employees about a computer security breach that may have involved their personal information. […] The issue came to light in December, when officials with SDFC and its business associate, Health Center Partners of Southern California, became aware…
University of Florida Health Shands notifies patients of privacy breach
University of Florida Health Shands officials have notified 1,562 individuals affected by a privacy incident involving a former employee who accessed medical records outside the scope of their duties between March 30, 2019 and April 6, 2021. Although this information did not involve Social Security Numbers, insurance details or other financial information, some demographic information…
The City of Chicago Provides Notice of Jones Day Incident Due to Accellion Hack
CHICAGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The City of Chicago today announced that a third-party vendor executing a data transfer of a select group of City email files given to the law firm Jones Day as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm became subject to a security breach. The breach, which at no time…