CBC News reports: An Ontario transit agency says it was in the crosshairs of a North Korean cyberattack earlier this month. The attack was a virus, routed through Russia, that infected computers at Metrolinx, according to a source at the agency who spoke on condition of anonymity. Spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins confirmed to CBC Toronto that the attack took…
Category: U.S.
Virginia General Assembly to Tackle a Variety of Privacy Related Bills
Christopher R. Nolen of McGuireWoods LLP writes: The Virginia General Assembly is underway and several privacy related bills are on the legislative agenda for 2018. The Virginia legislature will consider approximately 3,000 bills during its 60-day session that will end in early March. Here are several from Nolen’s list: In an attempt to further address…
ICE Releases Personal Information Of Immigrant-Crime Hotline Users
Because victims didn’t have enough tsuris already? This one appears to be an error made in responding to a FOIA request that resulted in personal information being revealed online. There was no text with the story – just the video news broadcast.
Greenbay employees have bank accounts raided after unpatched server hacked
Fox11 reports a hacking incident in GreenBay, but won’t name the company: Police are investigating after a local business’s computer network was hacked and money and information were stolen. Police did not identify the business. Officers say the hackers used a known vulnerability to get into the company’s computer system. The hackers stole personal information…
Health Data Breaches in 2017: The Year in Review
Protenus, Inc. has released its 2017 review of breaches involving health data. It is the second annual review they have published since we began collaborating on data collection and analyses. As a reminder of last year’s major findings: Protenus reported that in 2016, insider incidents constituted approximately 43% of the 450 incidents we had compiled…
Tupelo schools impacted by Questar data breach
Daily Journal reports: The Mississippi Education Department’s assessment vendor, Questar Assessment, Inc., reported today that 562 students in the Tupelo Public School District were impacted by the data breach the company discovered last week. Questar’s preliminary analysis found that an unauthorized user viewed student assessment records between Dec. 31, 2017 and Jan. 1 from Tupelo…