Joseph Cox reports: A user of a low level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot. Although the data is several years old, it still presents a cybersecurity and privacy risk to those whose…
Category: U.S.
Tennessee Wesleyan University systems recovering after Friday ransomware attack
Shane Duncan reports: Tennessee Wesleyan University was the target of a cyber attack that held certain files for ransom last week. The university is currently investigating the attack that was made on the campus network early Friday morning along with local officials, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and TWU’s insurance company’s cyberattack team. According…
DENIED! Court REJECTS Motion to Certify Class in Data Breach Alleging Disclosure of Employees’ Sensitive Tax Information
Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Data breach litigations rarely make it to motions for class certification. This trend makes each decision that does come out addressing class certification in the data breach context that much more interesting. Well, last week a federal court denied a plaintiff’s motion to certify a class in…
IA: Landus Cooperative files lawsuit against two former employees and New Cooperative
Coltrane Carlson reports: Landus Cooperative has filed a lawsuit against two former employees and New Cooperative. The lawsuit that was filed in the U.S. Northern District of Central Iowa Court and names two former employees Jeffrey Headley and Brian Berns, along with New Cooperative in 13 counts for alleged theft and misappropriation of confidential information…
Rady Children’s Hospital sued over Blackbaud breach
Law360 is reporting that Rady Children’s Hospital has been sued over the Blackbaud ransomware breach. The complaint alleges violations of California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act . The hospital had reported in October that they were notifying 19,788 about the breach. Access to the Law360 article is restricted to subscribers, but DataBreaches.net’s tracking file on…
Tesla Claims Engineer Stole Secrets Just Days Into the Job
Joel Rosenblatt reports: A former Tesla Inc. software engineer was ordered to appear before a judge to face allegations that three days into his job, he started stealing confidential files and transferring them to a personal storage account. During his two-week employment ending Jan. 6, Alex Khatilov stole more than 6,000 scripts, or files of code, that…