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Category: U.S.
Credit unions can serve up negligence claim in Sonic data breach case – judge
Sara Merken reports: An Ohio federal judge ruled on Sonic Corp’s bid to dismiss claims brought by financial institutions over a 2017 data breach in which hackers accessed customers’ payment card data from 325 of its drive-in locations, allowing a negligence claim to proceed while nixing claims of negligence per se and for declaratory and…
One of Florida’s largest orthopedic providers faces class-action lawsuit after data breach
Is it possible to have a data breach and NOT get sued these days? It doesn’t seem so. Jackie Callaway reports: One of Florida’s largest orthopedic providers is facing a class-action lawsuit after hackers stole personal information from potentially thousands of patients. Attorney John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan filed the lawsuit against the Florida…
Grays Harbor County Hospital Settlement
Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Washington suffered a ransomware attack in 2019. Despite their best efforts, not all data was recoverable. And not surprisingly in our litigious society, a lawsuit was filed against it. According to a proposed settlement announced this week, the lawsuit claims that Grays Harbor was responsible for the Data Incident and…
BBC got to spectate ransomware negotiations with NetWalker
Oh, this is a bit different. Joe Tidy of BBC reports that BBC got an anonymous tipoff about NetWalker’s ransomware negotiations with the University of California San Francisco and was able to spectate the chat negotiations. BBC’s report includes snippets of the negotiations such as when the uni counter-offered $780,000 to the threat actors’ $3…
UnityPoint Health Reaches $2.8M Settlement Over 2018 Data Breach
There’s an update to the litigation stemming from two UnityPoint Health phishing incidents that were discovered within months of each other in 2018. Part of the lawsuit was thrown out in 2019, but negligence claims were allowed to go forward. Not surprisingly, that seemed to result in a settlement. Jessica Davis reports: Iowa Health System,…