Nick Palmieri of Baker Botts writes: Healthcare providers wrestling with the legal fallout of cyber-attacks just received a fresh reminder from the District of Arizona: traditional tort and contract theories remain difficult to sustain after a breach, but consumer-fraud statutes can keep a case alive. In Johnson v. Yuma Regional Medical Center, fourteen patients sued the…
Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists’ Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up
Matthew Gault reports: An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets. Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the…
Prolific Russian ransomware operator living in California enjoys rare leniency awaiting trial
Matt Kapko reports: Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko exemplifies the profile of a modern cybercriminal, yet, unlike many others who have faced strict prosecution for similar offenses, the Justice Department has granted him liberties rarely extended to such suspects. The 36-year-old Russian national was arrested almost a year ago in California for his alleged involvement in multiple…
Watchdog orders Lotte Card to compensate victims of hack
The Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Financial regulators have ordered Lotte Card to set up a dedicated call center for victims of a recent hacking incident and to prepare procedures for full compensation in cases of any fraudulent card use. The order comes after a cyber breach was reported at the company with 9.65 million individual…
Bail for 2 Hong Kong doctors accused of leaking data to implicate surgeon
Oscar Liu reports: Two public hospital doctors have been granted bail after being arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of leaking a cancer patient’s medical data to highlight alleged professional shortcomings by her operating surgeon. Observers, meanwhile, said that although the incident did not align with the principles of “whistle-blowing”, it underscored the need for…
Gmail’s protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false.
From Google’s blog, today, to try to counter headlines about any major security concern: We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective. Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we issued a broad warning to all Gmail users about a major Gmail security issue. This is entirely false….