George V. Hulme reports: … A recent study conducted by IDC, on behalf of security vendor Ermetic, found that nearly 80% of the companies surveyed had experienced at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months. And 43% of those respondents reported 10 or more breaches over that time period. Read more about…
Ministry still tracing cause of Indonesia’s COVID-19 patient data leak
Antara News reports an update to a breach that first came to light when a data broker listed the data for sale on RaidForums. The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) currently continues to trace the reason behind the alleged hacking of a database containing information of the country’s COVID-19 patients that was circulated in…
Deloitte Consulting sued in two states over unemployment portal data security issues
Last month we started seeing reports of data leaks or breaches involving state unemployment benefits application portals. We also started seeing reports of lawsuits filed as a result. Ben Szalinski reports that in Illinois, one of the nearly 32,500 applicants who had private information exposed said it was used to access her bank account. Briana…
New York Patients’ Data Breach Claims Sent Back to State Court
Mary Anne Pazanowski reports an update to litigation that stemmed from a breach in 2018 that was disclosed by Episcopal Health Services in November 2018 and then updated in 2019. A group of New York patients claiming that Episcopal Health Services Inc. failed to protect their private information from unauthorized disclosures can proceed in state…
PH: Digital rights advocates warn of FaceApp’s security breach amid terror bill
Reinette Tarinay reports: Amid the looming passage of the anti-terror bill, digital rights advocates warned netizens against using FaceApp. In a statement, Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) said that FaceApp comes with ‘several risks and dangers’ especially since its popularity surged after Facebook’s alarming issue of duplicate accounts as well as the government’s awful try on…
Woman who deliberately deleted firm’s Dropbox is sentenced
Graham Cluley writes: 58-year-old Danielle Bulley may not look like your typical cybercriminal, but the act of revenge she committed against a company had just as much impact as a conventional hacker breaking into a business’s servers and causing havoc. As North Yorkshire police report, Bulley has been successfully prosecuted under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act…