Lawrence Abrams reports on a new “press release” from the Maze ransomware operators. The release was posted yesterday and claims that the Maze Team had successfully attacked Banco BCR, the state-owned bank of Costa Rico in August, 2019 The attackers claim that the bank never complied with its obligations to notify other banks and regulators….
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Alabama Dept. of Labor fixes app after personal information revealed
WPMI reports that an app developed to help Alabamians apply for unemployment benefits and check on their status was exposing personal information: Our sister station WBMA in Birmingham did some digging and found out that new app exposed the personal information of unemployment applicants to others. Rhonda Jones says when she tried to view her daughter’s documents…
LabCorp Board Sued in Delaware Over Billing Vendor Data Breaches
Mike Leonard reports: LabCorp’s board and top executives were hit with a Delaware lawsuit blaming them for investor losses stemming from two massive data breaches by a billing vendor that exposed the personal information of millions of patients. The derivative suit targets the medical testing giant’s directors, CEO, chief financial officer, and chief information officer. Read…
Chegg data breach lawsuit heads to arbitration
Sara Merken has a litigation update following a breach disclosed by Chegg A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against education technology company Chegg Inc over its 2018 data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 40 million users must proceed to arbitration. Read more on Reuters.
Judge Again Pushes Back Nikulin’s Trial Over COVID-19 Concerns
Ross Todd reports: A federal judge in San Francisco has suspended the trial until June in a case against a Russian man accused of hacking Silicon Valley technology companies, which was underway when the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global pandemic. U.S. District William Alsup of the Northern District of California on Tuesday cited questionnaire…
Former Prime Communications employee sent personal info of thousands of Prime employees in prime email gaffe
Austin Breasette reports: Thousands of employees’ personal information was sent right to a former Prime Communications employee’s email. “I’ve never experienced anything like this before,” said Tonya Smith. Smith said nothing but nervousness filled her mind after the human resources department sent her 105 pages of personal information of thousands of Prime Communications employees across…