Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , filed Dec.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We logged 134 security incidents in December, which accounted for 148,354,955 breached records. We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 4, 2021

CryptoAgility to take advantage of Quantum Computing. The same goes with the advent of Quantum Computing , which is supposed to bring exponential computing power that shall not only bring endless benefits but also raises question marks on the current state of cryptography that is the bedrock of all information security as we know today.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

The Scranton School District is working with third-party forensic specialists to investigate the security breach and restore impacted systems. The attack is causing a temporary disruption to some of our computer systems and services. ” reported The Time Tribune. ” reported The Time Tribune.

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) disclosed a data breach that affected almost 270,000 patients at its medical centers. The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. Social Security numbers (in some cases).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. Capital One, one of the largest U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The company develops specific electronics solutions and offers dedicated COTS solutions for hazardous environments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. Securing digital transactions. Stolen credentials.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. The law will apply to consumer electronics from 2020. Buckets of thumb drives”.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid. The law will apply to consumer electronics from 2020. Buckets of thumb drives”.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

” The AO declined to comment on specific questions about their breach disclosure. Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! billion rubles.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 28, 2023

This briefing looks at the Regulator’s draft General Code and its recent statement in response to a highly publicised pensions data breach and sets out some actions trustees should consider taking to protect their schemes from this increasing risk. Cybersecurity – why is it essential? The introduction of a virus or malware.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The case arose from a data breach in which criminals accessed UPMC’s computer systems and stole the personal and financial information of 62,000 current and former UPMC employees. The court explained that it was not creating a new, affirmative duty.

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 7, 2019

When I spoke at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference last month, there was a question from the live stream audience about a lawyer’s duty to disclose a data breach within his or her law firm. When a breach is discovered, the ABA Opinion finds that the duty of competence under Model Rule 1.1 No exceptions*.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Application security is the practice of securing software and data from hackers, whether that application comes from a third party or was developed in house, regardless of where it resides or how it’s accessed. How Does Application Security Work? What Are the Types of Application Security?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

.” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2019

Just as the number of data breaches continues to rise, the number of lawsuits over data breaches continues to rise as well. Chances are that your data has been hacked at some point from at least one company with which you do business. But this lawsuit is unique. million US citizens. million US citizens.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Security Affairs newsletter Round 209 – News of the week. Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Google Android team found high severity flaw in Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system. 20% discount.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

On September 22, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved three separate bills that would establish a national data breach notification standard. The Data Breach Notification Act of 2011 (the “Feinstein Bill”), is the fifth such bill introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

“The data was collected from 3.25 million computers. ” The experts pointed out that custom malware used to amass such kind of data is very cheap, easy to find online and customizable. The post Mysterious custom malware used to steal 1.2TB of data from million PCs appeared first on Security Affairs.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information. It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). Computer viruses. Exposure of confidential information. Reputational damage.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Malware is designed to disrupt and gain unauthorised access to a computer system. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that demands a ransom fee be paid after the software is installed on a computer system. This type of malware is very common and was the cause of the NHS data breach earlier this year.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

.” Data amassed by the hackers were obtained from third-party data breaches, they were offered on several hacking forums. The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000. ” concludes the Europol. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 12, 2018

Awareness and training: Everyone in your office needs to be aware of what ransomware is, the methods of delivery, and basic security principles to best prevent a system from being infected. Regular software updates are key because these updates often include security components. is updated regularly.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

As reported on Bloomberg ( Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People , written by Eric Newcomer) last week, compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world. The post Uber’s Response to Data Breach?

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Anthem”) following Anthem’s 2015 data breach. That breach, affecting approximately 79 million individuals, was the largest breach of protected health information (“PHI”) in history. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. io (OIO) was going to upend the online advertising and security industries with its initial coin offering (ICO).

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Archive Document Data Storage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

As well as a financial hit resulting from a data breach, your business’ reputation would also be damaged beyond repair in the eyes of your clients and stakeholders. It is more important than ever to ensure that your unwanted or duplicate data (both paper and electronic) is securely destroyed. Personal data.

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