In April, Noah Michael Urban pleaded guilty in a Florida courtroom to charges he had faced in two separate federal cases. Yesterday, he was sentenced in a Florida courtroom to ten years in prison and $13 million in restitution. In the Florida case, Urban, known online as “King Bob,” “Sosa,” “Elijah,” “Anthony Ramirez” and “Gustavo…
Pharmaceutical Company Inotiv Confirms Ransomware Attack
Ionut Arghire reports: Pharmaceutical company Inotiv has notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its business operations took a hit after hackers compromised and encrypted its internal systems. The incident, the organization said in a Form 8-K filing, occurred on August 8, and prompted Inotiv to initiate containment and remediation processes. “The company’s preliminary…
UK Cannabis Clinic CB1 Medical Investigating As Patients Affected By Major Data Leak
Sarah Sinclair reports: A UK medical cannabis clinic is carrying out investigations after a substantial amount of patients’ information was leaked in a major data breach. In an email sent to patients on Monday 18 August, CB1 Medical confirmed it had identified a ‘data security incident’ when patients’ personal details, including prescription information, were found…
Orange Belgium S A informs its customers about a cyberattack
Statement from Orange Belgium S.A. on August 20 2025: At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts. No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email addresses, bank or financial details were hacked. However, the hacker gained…
Two agencies in one state investigated and fined Healthplex. Was that one too many?
DataBreaches is generally a great fan of state attorneys general taking enforcement action stemming from data breaches where the security was really subpar or the entity did not notify those affected in a reasonable amount of time. But two enforcement actions in New York have me wondering if the state has been a bit unfair…
When a deal is not a done deal: Nova demands higher payment from Clinical Diagnostics (1)
Last week, it appeared that Clinical Diagnostics (“Eurofins”) had paid a gang’s demands not to leak patient data that Nova had exfiltrated during a ransomware attack in July. Clinical Diagnostics in the Netheralands held patient data on 485,000 Dutch women in a cervical cancer screening program. Nova confirmed the payment to a Dutch news outlet….