Brent J. Arnold and Alexanda Psellas of Gowling WLG write: The recent Ontario decision in Karasik v. Yahoo! Inc.,[1] suggests that while many plaintiffs’ lawyers anticipated a future of massive payouts for data breach class actions in Canada, recent court decisions predict a different course. The beginning of what may be an emerging consensus across provinces and…
IT: Threat actors attack ATC website, demand ransom
Alessia Gaglianese reports (translation): The Turin Territorial Housing Agency (ATC) website has been hacked. The criminals demanded a ransom of $ 700,000. It was the agency’s IT technicians who discovered that something was wrong with the telematic system. According to the first reconstructions, these are professional foreign hackers. Read more: sicurezza.net According to its web…
NY: Montefiore Medical Center discloses fourth insider-wrongdoing breach in seven months
Montefiore Medical Center in New York is notifying patients of yet another insider-wrongdoing breach. Read their press release below and then the comments after it. April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Montefiore Medical Center is notifying some patients about a security breach involving information illegally accessed by a former employee. Categories of personal information accessed varied…
Singapore public servant, another woman to be charged over COVID-19 data leak
Yahoo! reports: A female civil servant and another woman, both 36, will be charged on Wednesday (14 April) over alleged leaks of the daily updates of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Singapore prior to their official release, the police said on Tuesday (13 April). The public servant will be charged under the Official Secrets Act (OSA)…
Baltimore County Public Schools takes responsibility for data breach that affected teachers
Tim Tooten reports: More than 2,500 of Baltimore County Public School system employees have had their personal information compromised and the district said it’s their fault. It follows a number of technology issues the school system has been dealing with since November. School officials said they learned about the technology failure in January, but letters…
Swedish prosecutor says Russia’s GRU hacked Sweden’s sports body, WADA
Reuters reports: Swedish prosecutors said on Tuesday an investigation showed that Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency had carried out serious data secrecy breaches at Sweden’s sports confederation in 2017 and 2018 but it was nevertheless dropping the case. The Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that repeated and comprehensive breaches had resulted in the…