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…
San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System Faces Lawsuit After Data Breach
Rebecca Picciotto reports: Since June 5, The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) has been confronted with a class-action lawsuit claiming negligence due to a data hack from February. Righetti Glugoski, a law firm located in San Francisco, is representing the plaintiffs. The case was brought to the firm by San Francisco resident Richard Goss….
Data breach at Mid-Michigan College endangers personal data of up to 16,000
Eric Baerren reports: A hacker penetrated Mid-Michigan College’s email system, compromising the accounts of 10 employees and compromising personal data of potentially up to 16,000 people. The data breach was announced in correspondence sent by MMC president Christine Hammond to the college community earlier this week, and in a public notice on Thursday. Read more…