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Contract Class Certified in CareFirst Data Breach Lawsuit 9 Years After Legal Action was Initiated

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Dissent

Steve Alder reports: A lawsuit against CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield that was filed in response to a 2014 data breach has had a contract class certified by a federal judge, 9 years after legal action was initiated. The lawsuit can now proceed and more than 1 million plan members are a step closer to obtaining damages. In…

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K12 SIX Applauds Launch of K-12 Education Cybersecurity Council

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Dissent

On March 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education—in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—held the kickoff meeting of the Education Facilities Subsector Government Coordinating Council (GCC), designed to facilitate formal, ongoing collaboration between all levels of government and the education sector on issues of K-12 cybersecurity risk management. Organized in response…

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On Q Financial announces data breach, law firm feeding frenzy follows

Posted on April 6, 2024 by Dissent

On April 2, Arizona-based On Q Financial notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of a breach the mortgage lender experienced. Within days, law firms announced investigations into the breach and sought potential class action members. Was there anything particularly unique that would trigger a legal feeding frenzy? No. But On Q Financial holds financial data…

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Proporsed Rule: Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) Reporting Requirements

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Dissent

A quick note that the official draft of CIRCA is now published: A Proposed Rule by the Homeland Security Department on 04/04/2024 All information is linked from https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/04/2024-06526/cyber-incident-reporting-for-critical-infrastructure-act-circia-reporting-requirements NOTE: This is quite long, so leave yourself time to read it. Comments and related material must be submitted on or before June 3, 2024.  

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Threat actors walked away from a $1.8 million offer because the victim talked to the media?! (1)

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Dissent

A recent listing on LockBit’s leak site about Crinetics Pharmaceuticals seemed unusual. It included a disclaimer: “Those responsible for the exfiltration of data belonging to this victim have no association, indirect or direct, with the Lockbit group.” If those who exfiltrated the data had no association with LockBit, why was the listing on LockBit’s site?…

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City of Hope updates a breach disclosure, reports 827,149 patients affected in ransomware attack last year

Posted on April 3, 2024 by Dissent

City of Hope updated its breach disclosure. DataBreaches can now reveal some previously undisclosed details about the 2023 incident. In December 2023, City of Hope, a cancer treatment center in Duarte, California, notified HHS that it had experienced a breach. Its report indicated that “501” patients had been affected, but this was just a marker…

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