Clement Ooi reports: The civil suit between local gaming products company Razer and IT solutions provider Capgemini began in Singapore’s High Court today (Jul 13) Last year, Razer discovered a cybersecurity breach that revealed that the personal information of about 100,000 Razer customers could have been exposed. While no sensitive data such as credit card…
Tenet Healthcare faces lawsuit after Baptist Health System data breach affects 1.2 million patients
Catherine Martin reports: A Texas man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate Baptist Health System after the companies experienced a data breach this year that affected more than a million patients. The lawsuit was filed July 5 in Dallas County on behalf of Troy Contreras, one of about 1.2…
Tel Aviv municipality website targeted in latest Iraqi cyberattack against Israeli institutions
PressTV in Iraq reports: A group of hackers based in Iraq says they have managed to break into the Tel Aviv municipality website and take it down, a week after a similar cyberattack on Israeli NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd., which is responsible for the design and construction of a mass transit system in…
Au: Infrastructure companies must report cyberattacks within 12 hours
Tom Burton reports: Critical infrastructure operators must now report significant cyber breaches to the federal government within 12 hours of an attack, following the expiry of a three-month grace period that enabled nearly 2500 of them to prepare for the new rules. Owners of electricity, gas, ports and water, and sewerage assets are also required…
Honda Admits Hackers Could Unlock Car Doors, Start Engines
Ionut Arghire reports: Honda has confirmed that researchers were indeed able to hack the remote keyless entry system of certain Honda vehicles to unlock the doors and start the engine. Over the weekend, security researchers Kevin2600 and Wesley Li from Star-V Lab published information on a security bug they identified in the rolling codes mechanism…
Robinhood settles data breach class action for $20M
Lauren Silva and Abraham Jewett report a settlement in Robinhood class-action litigation. Robinhood agreed to pay as much as $20 million to resolve claims the stock trading platform failed to prevent a 2020 data breach. The settlement will provide thousands of hacked Robinhood customers with both compensation and two years of credit monitoring and identity…