A Tennessee man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. According to court documents, Daniel Everette Hale, 33, of Nashville, began communicating with a reporter beginning in April 2013 while enlisted in the U.S….
PA: Allegheny Intermediate Unit notifying employees, dependents, and vendors about ransomware incident
Update and possible correction: this may be a different breach than the one first reported in February 2020. The post below has been edited to reflect that while I attempt to verify if this was a second incident or not. Yesterday, AIU issued a press release about an incident they say they discovered in January…
FL: TGH Urgent Care says data breach may have impacted 558 patients
WTSP reports: A former employee is accused of taking photos of patients’ driver’s licenses and credit card information, according to TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track. TGH says they think the former employee took pictures of three people’s personal information while working alone on Sept. 9, at the intake window of its Seminole location….
Judson ISD’s ransomware nightmare won’t be cheap
Brandon Lingle really laces into Judson ISD over their incident response and transparency in the wake of a June ransomware incident. It appears that the district paid an undisclosed amount of ransom to unidentified threat actors, but it’s not clear what they got for that ransom payment. It was a month before phone and email…
Uber found to have breached Australian’s privacy following 2016 hack
Cameron Abbott and Jacqueline Patishmanof K&L Gates write: In 2017, Uber disclosed to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) a breach of its some 57 million global users and driver’s personal information (including approximately 1.2 million Australians). Last Friday, the OAIC determined that Uber had breached the Australian Privacy Act by failing to take reasonable steps to…
When Ransomware Group REvil Vanished, Its Victims Were Stranded
While Kaseya clients and their clients got some welcome help in the past few days when Kaseya announced that they had a universal decryptor go give clients — a decryptor that they claim they did not pay anyone in any way to obtain — there are are still other victims of REvil struggling. Kartikay Mehrotra…