Timothy Carter and Susan Kohn Ross of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP write: While much attention and focus has rightly been placed on the California Consumer Privacy Act and the dramatic expansion of privacy rights for California residents that it heralds, a number of other states have quickly followed suit, working to strengthen their respective…
University of Utah patients notified after phishing incident compromised employee email accounts
David Wells reports: Some of University of Utah Health’s patients are receiving notice that their private information may have been compromised in a recent email security breach. According to U of U Health, some of its employees’ email accounts were compromised in phishing schemes, resulting in unauthorized access of those accounts between April 6 and…
IT Services Giant Conduent Suffers Ransomware Attack, Data Breach
Ed Targett reports: Conduent, a $4.4 billion by revenue (2019) IT services giant, has admitted that a ransomware attack hit its European operations — but says it managed to restore most systems within eight hours. Although Conduent didn’t name the ransomware, the Maze Team announced the breach on their site and provided some proof of their…
Maze Promotes Other Gang’s Stolen Data On Its Darknet Site
Doug Olenick reports: The Maze ransomware gang is hosting and promoting data stolen by other ransomware operators on its “Maze News” website, according to IBM researchers, who are concerned this could be a sign of growing collaboration among cybercrime groups. IBM’s X-Force IRIS team, which has been tracking Maze, tells Information Security Media Group that…
NetWalker ransomware continues streak of college attacks
Benjamin Freed reports: A form of ransomware known as NetWalker added two more colleges to its list of victims Wednesday by claiming to have stolen files from Columbia College in Chicago and the University of California, San Francisco, according to screenshots posted on a blog maintained by the hackers behind the attacks. Read more on…
CPA Canada discloses data breach affecting 329,000 individuals
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) today disclosed that a cyberattack against the CPA Canada website allowed unauthorized third parties to access the personal information of over 329,000 members and other stakeholders. CPA Canada is a national organization with more than 217,000 Chartered Professional Accountants as members and one of the largest national accounting bodies in the world….