Kiran Parashar reports that 40-year-old senior account manager with a multinational software firm has been arrested and charged with stealing the firm’s employee information and client data. Although the Times of India report names the man, they do not name the victim company, his former employer, and the name of the firm does not appear…
Switzerland stops information exchange with Bulgaria
Cristian Angeloni reports: The Swiss Federal Council has halted its automatic exchange of information (AEOI) agreement with Bulgaria. The move follows a problem with data security in the Eastern European country in July 2019, when a leak exposed financial account information of four million Bulgarians and foreign taxpayers. Although the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency was…
ED can withhold names of tax evaders in Panama Papers: Central Information Commission
PTI reports: The names of alleged tax evaders appearing in the Panama Papers leak can be withheld by the Enforcement Directorate from disclosure, the Central Information Commission has held. The Commission made these observations while deciding the plea of Durga Prasad Choudhary who did not get a satisfactory response from the agency on his RTI…
Public dataset to help researchers predict malicious activity
Sara Barker reports: Australian researchers have created what they are calling ‘the largest public available dataset of malicious internet activity’ of its kind. They hope it will help cybersecurity specialists predict what security threats the future could bring. CRISO’s Data61, Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and Nokia Bell Labs developed the dataset, called FinalBlacklist, that…
Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta discloses three phishing incidents in 6 months
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has had its name cross my desk a lot this past year. And that’s not a good thing. There have been five Cancer Treatment Centers of America breach notices that have been publicly disclosed since November 2018. Three of them involved the Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Atlanta,…
NE: CHI Health says ransomware incident may have exposed info of patients at Lakeside Hospital’s orthopedic clinic
Not sure how I missed this one, but I did, it seems. Note that CHI Health stands for Catholic Health Initiative. They are a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. On September 28, Jessica Wade reported: A CHI Health clinic sent letters to patients Friday informing them that their personal information may have been exposed…