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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. million individuals from the Company’s systems. filed Dec.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). South Carolina-based United Health notifies patients of 2019 data breach (36). Ashley Madison data breach victims still being hounded by sextortion scammers (unknown). San Diego school district investigating after online grading system hacked (unknown).

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools.

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Georgia Governor Vetoes Broad-Reaching Computer Crime Bill, Highlighting Debate Around Bug Bounty Programs

Data Matters

The Georgia State Senate had recently voted 42-7 to approve SB 315, which criminalized unauthorized computer access with maximum penalties of up to one year of incarceration and a fine of $5,000. Organizations have employed bug bounty programs in an effort to encourage researchers to report security flaws in their systems.

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£60 million in recovery costs for Norsk Hydro after refusing ransom demand

IT Governance

On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Without our special decoder it is impossible to restore the data.”.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears

KnowBe4

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%