Kartikay Mehrotra reports: A federal appeals court delivered a victory to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday by upholding new and controversial data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications companies targeted in cyberattacks. The court rejected consolidated challenges, 2 to 1, from trade groups including the Ohio Telecom Association, Texas Association of Business and USTelecom. They…
SAG-AFTRA Members Settle Lawsuit Against Union Health Plan Over Data Breach
In December 2024, SAG-AFTRA notified members of a phishing incident in September 2024 that may have resulted in unauthorized access to their name and Social Security number, and may also have contained information associated with claims and health insurance information, such as health plan participant identification number, if applicable. The incident was reported to HHS…
Site Behind Major SSN Leak Returns With Detailed Data on Millions: How to Opt Out
Michael Kan reports: National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone’s personal information. The site shut down in December amid a wave of lawsuits against parent company Jericho Pictures after a breach exposed an estimated 272 million unique SSNs and…
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Adam Goldman, Glenn Thrush, and Mattathias Schwartz report: Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes, according to several people briefed on…
NL: Hacked lab paid ransom: ‘Millions of euros demanded’
The following is a machine translation of an article by Daniel Verlaan: The hacked Clinical Diagnostics laboratory in Rijswijk has paid a ransom to the cybercriminals. Ransomware group Nova, responsible for the hack, confirmed this to RTL Nieuws. The laboratory hopes the payment will prevent more stolen data and medical records of Dutch citizens from…
Updating: Two Telegram channels and two accounts banned, one bounty offered, and BreachForums goes down
If you were glued to a Telegram channel the other day watching people associated with ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsu$ leak data and rant about Mandiant, the NCA, the FBI, and demand that some arrested folks be set free, then you might want to think of yesterday and today as the next episode to the…