January 21 — SAN DIEGO – Kirill Victorovich Firsov, a Russian citizen, pleaded guilty in federal court today to a cybercrime, admitting that he was the administrator of a website that catered to cyber criminals by virtually selling items such as stolen credit card information, other personal information and services to be used for criminal…
HIPAA Enforcement by State Attorneys General
HIPAA Journal has a nice recap of of HIPAA enforcement actions by states attorney general. You can read it here.
Association of Corporate Counsel Launches Data Steward Program: An Approach to Assessing Law Firm Data Security
Joseph Lazzarotti and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write On December 8th, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), which represents over 45,000 in-house counsel across 85 countries, announced the launch of its Data Steward Program (DSP) to help organizations and their law firms assess and share information about information security relating to client data. The DSP is two years…
Intel Probes Potential Unauthorized Access to Earnings Report
Ian King reports: Intel Corp. is investigating whether someone gained early access to part of its earnings announcement on Thursday. “We are investigating reports that non-authorized access may have been obtained to one graphic in our earnings material,” the chipmaker said in a statement. Read more on Bloomberg.
Update: Security breach that led to abusive posts on Canvas solved, Clark County School District says
Julie Wootton-Greener reports: The Clark County School District has found out how a person gained access to an online learning platform and used it to post “inappropriate messages.” The district said in a statement late Wednesday that the staff had “identified and corrected” the problem that enabled the intruder to access the district’s Canvas system…
User data from decade-old breach of MyFreeCams shows up for sale?
Edvardas Mikalauskas reported: A database that purportedly belongs to MyFreeCams.com, one of the top adult chat and web streaming communities, is being sold on a popular hacker forum. According to the post author, the data was exfiltrated from the company servers in December 2020 by carrying out an SQL injection attack, and includes 2 million…