Daniel Lanyon reports: Digital wealth manger Scalable notified customers of a large data breach on Monday evening. Scalable said in a message to customers, seen by AltFi, that personal data was breached by unlawful access “Scalable Capital has taken all necessary security measures and informed the relevant supervisory authorities. Your assets held in safe custody with the custodian…
Sopra Steria falls victim to ransomware attack
FinExtra reports: European IT services group Sopra Steria is battling a suspected ransomware attack on its network. The firm, whose biggest customers in the financial sector include include Société Générale, BNP Paribas, La Banque Postale, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, RBS, Huyndai Capital and the Bank of China, issued a terse statement confirming a cyberattack on its…
“We take your privacy seriously….” Thursday edition.
I’ve been reading some other sites’ coverage of the Pfizer leak that was discovered by vpnMentor and shared exclusively with DataBreaches.net. The incident involved a misconfigured cloud storage bucket that exposed hundreds of consumer/patient reports to Pfizer on a reporting line for drug safety concerns or other concerns. As such, it contained a lot of…
Ensuring Transparency: Language to Avoid in HIPAA Breach Notifications
Over on HealthIT Security, Jessica Davis is singing a tune I’ve often sung about transparency in breach notifications. Sing along.
FI: Hackers hold patient information for ransom in psychotherapy data breach
NewsNow reports: A company that offers psychotherapy to thousands of patients across Finland says it’s been the victim of a data breach, with the personal information of customers held for ransom. Vastaamo, which sees patients in 20 cities including Helsinki, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Pori, Turku and Tampere, says “an unknown hostile party” got in touch with them…
Another REvil attack creates havoc for the Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate
Carla Bridglal reports: The Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate, Ansa McAl, is the victim of ransomware hackers holding some of the company’s IT systems hostage. Newsday understands that work at Tatil, the country’s biggest insurer, has been effectively stalled for about two weeks as the IT department works to find and expel the ransomware from the company’s…