Pierre Fabre is a French multinational pharmaceutical and skin cosmetics firm. In March, 2020, in response to the pandemic they began to focus their efforts on producing hydroalcoholic gels and skin creams for hospitals to help limit the spread of COVID-19. Now Sandrine Morin reports (translation): The entire production of the Pierre Fabre group has…
Hackers threaten shipping firm ECU Worldwide with data leak
Nate Tabak reports: A ransomware gang is threatening to release a massive trove of data stolen from shipping firm ECU Worldwide more than a month after a cyberattack caused serious disruptions to its online platforms. The Mount Locker ransomware gang claimed in a post to its leak site on Sunday that it had taken 2…
Update on education sector clients impacted by Blackbaud ransomware incident
I don’t know how he finds the energy to do it, but Marco A. DeFelice (@amvinfe on Twitter) continues to track disclosures involving Blackbaud’s ransomware incident of 2020. He has organized his tabulations by whether the entities are hospitals or educational facitlities, etc. Today he has provided another update to the education sector, in which…
Update: BioTel Heart notifies patients of vendor leak. Did vendor fail to notify them?
A cardiac monitoring firm is now notifying patients after a Google search on their name in January led them to an August, 2020 report on this site about a vendor’s leak. But why didn’t they know about it already from the vendor last year or from the notifications this site had sent them last year?…
Booking.com hit with €475K penalty for failing to report a breach within 72 hours
Politico reports: Hotel booking site Booking.com got hit with a €475,000 fine for being late to report a data breach, the company’s lead EU privacy regulator announced Wednesday. The fine, imposed by the Dutch data protection authority because the company is legally established in Amsterdam, came after criminals stole the personal data of more than…
GA: Cyberattack on Cobb schools enabled by contractor’s weak password, police say
Kristal Dixon reports: An attack on the Cobb County School District’s crisis management system that forced all schools into lockdown last month happened because of a weak password, according the police. The password was not created by a school district employee, but a worker with the AlertPoint security system used by the district, police said….