Jan Vermeulen reports: An attack on debit order collection company Qsure has impacted several South African insurers who use its services, including Hollard and Guardrisk. Australian security researcher Troy Hunt recently posted a notice from Ooba to its clients saying that although they do not yet know if any Guardrisk and Ooba clients were affected,…
Rewards for Justice – Reward Offer for Information on Foreign Malicious Cyber Activity Against U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The following announcement is from the U.S. Department of State today: The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the…
U.S. Government Launches First One-Stop Ransomware Resource at StopRansomware.gov
Press release from the Department of Justice today: Today, as part of the ongoing response, agencies across the U.S. government announced new resources and initiatives to protect American businesses and communities from ransomware attacks. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), together with federal partners, have launched a…
Booneville and Lancaster school districts dealing with alleged cyberattacks
Clover Park School District in Washington state is only one of several k-12 districts recently attacked by threat actors calling themselves “Grief.” The same threat actors also attacked Booneville School District in Mississippi and Lancaster Independent School District in Texas. Note that DataBreaches.net has no information or confirmation to indicate whether either of the victims…
Cancer patient to sue Cork’s Mercy Hospital over HSE ransomware incident
Sean O’Riordan and Shauna Bowers report: One of the first legal cases over the release of sensitive medical information on the dark web as part of the HSE cyber hack has been lodged at Cork Circuit Court. The case was lodged on Monday against Mercy University Hospital (MUH) by a Cork solicitor acting on behalf…
Ohio Introduces Data Privacy Legislation
Kurt R. Hunt and Gregory A. Tapocsi of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP write: On July 13, 2021, Ohio Lieutenant Governor John Husted announced the introduction of the Ohio Personal Privacy Act (OPPA), a comprehensive privacy framework following in the footsteps of recent legislative enactments in California (the CCPA as modified by the CPRA), Virginia (the…