ANI reports: South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has confirmed hackers stole about USD 49 million worth of cryptocurrency. Upbit CEO Lee Seok-woo revealed in an official blog post that 342,000 ETH (approximately 58 billion South Korean won) were transferred from the Upbit Ethereum Hot Wallet to an unknown wallet. Read more on Business Standard.
City of Dothan to hire attorneys in credit card data breach
WRGX reports: Dothan commissioners will likely hire attorneys to represent the city in a data breach that potentially affected several thousand of its utilities customers. “A resolution will be presented to the Commissioners regarding an authorization for engaging the law firm of Mullen Coughlin LLC. to represent the City of Dothan,” spokesperson Vincent Vincent said…
ES: Cyber Attack Causes Prosegur Security Company To Shut Down Its Network
Ionut Ilascu reports: In a statement at midday today (local time), Spanish multinational security company Prosegur announced that it was the victim of a cybersecurity incident disrupting its telecommunication platform. The company restricted communications with its customers to avoid malware propagation. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Facebook must face data breach class action on security, but not damages: judge
Jonathan Stempel reports: A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc (FB.O) users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018 data breach cannot sue as a group for damages, but can seek better security at the social media company after a series of privacy lapses. Read more on Reuters.
OCR Secures $2.175 Million HIPAA Settlement after Sentara Hospitals Failed to Properly Notify HHS of a Breach of Unsecured Protected Health Information
OCR has announced another settlement. This one involves Sentara Hospitals, and it’s a somewhat surprising one in the sense that Sentara not only seems to have gotten the fundamentals of HIPAA and notification compliance wrong, but then they seem to have insisted in their wrongheaded ways even after HHS told them what their obligations were. …
Sale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains; Two Other Chains Also Notifying Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Two financial industry sources who track payment card fraud and asked to remain anonymous for this story said the four million cards were taken in breaches recently disclosed by restaurant chains Krystal, Moe’s, McAlister’s Deli and Schlotzsky’s. Krystal announced a card breach last month. The other three restaurants are all part of the same parent company and…