Canan Sevgili of Reuters reports: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com’s gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday. KVKK launched an investigation after a 125 GB data leak. It found that Twitch had failed to take adequate security measures beforehand, addressing…
Attorney General James Secures $250,000 from Movie Theater Operator for Failing to Protect Employees’ Personal Information
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $250,000 from a global movie theater operator, National Amusements, Inc. (National Amusements), that operates movie theaters in the Bronx and on Long Island for failing to protect their former and current employees and contractors’ personal information. An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General…
Patients at center of data breach case win $65M settlement against Lehigh Valley Health Network
Nicole Leonard reports: A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for a $65 million settlement with Lehigh Valley Health Network in a data breach case that involved stolen medical records and nude photos of cancer patients, taken during exams, posted on the dark web by a Russian cybergang. At a hearing Friday in Lackawanna County Court, Senior…
Authority: Up to 300k people impacted in City of Helsinki’s massive data breach
YLE News reports: The Safety Investigation Authority of Finland (Otkes) is continuing an investigation of a massive data breach that targeted the City of Helsinki last spring. Otkes said investigators have already collected more than 90 percent of the data involved in the exceptionally large-scale breach. The City first announced news of the breach in the spring….
Hackers now sending physical malicious letters, Swiss authorities warn
Ernestas Naprys reports: Is there anything threat actors won’t do to gain initial access? Swiss authorities are warning about a new sophisticated cybersecurity threat – malicious counterfeit letters. Cyber bandits have launched a malicious campaign across Switzerland using counterfeit letters that appear to be from MeteoSwiss (the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology). The victims…
Three Indiana residents charged in nationwide sim-swapping conspiracy
Three Indiana residents have been charged with conspiracy in connection with a SIM-swapping operation. According to the sealed indictment filed on Nov. 7, 2024, Indigo Kiara Graham, 27, Cortez Tarmar Crawford, 22, and Trevon Demar Allen, 30, all residents of Elkhart, Indiana , allegedly conspired with each other and others to unjustly enrich themselves by…