The attacks on the medical sector continue, although not all get a lot of media coverage. This week, DataBreaches.net noted the Alamance Skin Center ransomware breach which had left the medical entity with unrecoverable data on 100,000 patients. I get a knot in my stomach just thinking about breaches like that one. Today, DataBreaches.net notes…
Accused Ringleader of FIN7 Hacking Group Pleads Guilty
Prajeet Nair reports: An accused ringleader of the notorious FIN7 hacking group, which prosecutors say stole 15 million payment cards over several years, has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, according to court documents filed in the case this week. Andrii Kolpakov, who is a Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud…
Ongoing Data Breach Dispute Underscores Emerging Legal Issues in Data Privacy Litigation
Aaron C. Garavaglia of Squire Patton Boggs writes: From consumers and merchants to financial institutions and investors, fraud is a global problem that damages healthy economic growth. Two sobering statistics illustrate that as the world has become more connected, fraud has only proliferated. In 2001, the FTC received 137,306 reports of fraud. In 2019, that number increased…
Ransomware attack forces web hosting provider Managed.com to take servers offline
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Managed.com, one of the biggest providers of managed web hosting solutions, has taken down all its servers in order to deal with a ransomware attack, ZDNet has learned today. The attack took place on Monday, November 16, and the ransomware impacted the company’s public-facing web hosting systems, resulting in some customer sites having their…
Northampton Public Library working to recover from ransomware attack
Ransomware threat actors have hit yet another public library. This time it is Northampton Public Library in Pennsylvania, who have posted this notice on their web site: Temporarily closed until further notice We will be temporarily closed until further notice due to technical issues. You will not be able to search our catalog, renew items online,…
IE: ‘Loner’, 21, jailed over online theft of $2m worth of cryptocurrencies
Brian Hoban reports: A 21-year-old Dublin ‘loner’ has been jailed after being caught in a Bitcoin scam with the help of US Homeland Security. Conor Freeman took part in the online theft of more than $2million worth of cryptocurrencies. Read more about this case and some of the victims on Extra.ie.