Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Yahoo!’s data breach class action is finally being put to rest. Last month, the Northern District of California approved the proposed $117.5M settlement to resolve the claims of approximately 194 million class members in In re Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. 16-MD-02752-LHK, 2020 U.S. Dist….
We’ll be back soon….
Apologies for the abrupt interruption in this blog’s coverage of breach news. Tropical Storm Isaias did a whole lot of damage in my area and we lost power and internet cable here for a few days. But we’ve got power and internet back — at least for now….. so expect to see this site updated…
Canon hit by Maze Ransomware attack, 10TB data allegedly stolen
Lawrence Abrams reports: Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, and other internal applications. BleepingComputer has been tracking a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service resulting in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. Read…
Robocall Legal Advocate Leaks Customer Data
Brian Krebs reports: A California company that helps telemarketing firms avoid getting sued for violating a federal law that seeks to curb robocalls has leaked the phone numbers, email addresses and passwords of all its customers, as well as the mobile phone numbers and other data on people who have hired lawyers to go after…
UK: Hospital investigating possible confidentiality breach
Emily Roberts reports: Personal details about women who have had a stillbirth appear to have mistakenly been published online by the trust which runs Basingstoke hospital. […] Three reviews were published in two different documents in June and July, providing details including the date and time of the stillbirth, the women’s age and BMI, the…
INTERPOL report shows alarming rate of cyberattacks during COVID-19
From INTERPOL: An INTERPOL assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime has shown a significant target shift from individuals and small businesses to major corporations, governments and critical infrastructure. With organizations and businesses rapidly deploying remote systems and networks to support staff working from home, criminals are also taking advantage of increased security vulnerabilities…