Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: A new bill, proposed by Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), purports to apply the privacy and security practices under the HITECH Act, to entities that process non protected health information (PHI) and their service providers in the same manner that…
Manassas City Public Schools close on Monday due to cyberattack
Alan Henney reports: Manassas City Public Schools (MCPS) are closed on Monday due to a cybersecurity incident that has led to connectivity disruptions and phone outages across the school system, officials said. Dr. Kevin Newman, MCPS superintendent, said in a post on Facebook on Sunday that all MCPS schools will be closed on Monday, November…
San Joaquin County Superior Court concludes sensitive info leaked in data breach
Hannah Weaver reports: The Superior Court of California for the County of San Joaquin announced Friday afternoon that it found an “unauthorized person” had gained access to the court’s computer network last year. That breach included individuals’ sensitive information, including Social Security, driver’s license and credit card numbers, the court said in a press release….
NCCIA arrests man over massive data breach involving millions of Pakistanis
Dialogue Pakistan reports: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested a man for allegedly selling the personal data of millions of Pakistani citizens online, officials said on Friday. A hard disk reportedly containing sensitive information was recovered from the suspect, highlighting the scale of the breach. The suspect has been identified as Anees…
Defense Contractors Are Silencing Their Cybersecurity Watchdogs
Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions
Alexander Busse, Jessica Fuhrman, Elizabeth Hudson, Ian Jones, Francis Nolan IV, and Valerie Strong Sanders of Eversheds Sutherland write: One of the hotly litigated issues in data breach class action litigation is whether plaintiffs in these actions have standing under Article III of the US Constitution. For a complaint to survive, the plaintiff must allege…