Pierluigi Paganini reports: Romanian Waters (Administrația Națională Apele Române), the country’s water management authority, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. According to the National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), the incident affected around 1,000 computer systems across the central organization and 10 of its 11 regional offices. The attack disrupted IT assets, including GIS servers,…
Mike Scarcella reports: A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177 million settlement that resolves data security lawsuits against AT&T over breaches that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom giant’s customers. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in the federal court in Dallas, Texas, said in a ruling…
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……
Meta on Tuesday announced it’s adding Strict Account Settings on WhatsApp to secure certain users against advanced cyber attacks because of who they are and what they do. The feature, similar to Lockdown Mode in Apple iOS and Advanced Protection in Android, aims to protect individuals, such as journalists or public-facing figures, from sophisticated spyware…
Or Hadar reports: Clalit Health Services, the largest health maintenance organization in Israel, said it is investigating a suspected cyberattack after an Iranian-linked hacking group claimed it breached the insurer’s systems and published thousands of documents containing personal information of patients. The hacking group, calling itself “Handala,” has published thousands of documents online, including medical……
If this were a poll, DataBreaches would vote “yes.” DataBreaches has never really understood why breach notification letters do not have to reveal the name of a business associate or vendor if the breach occurred on their system. Why shouldn’t business associates or vendors risk the same reputation impact that their clients do? Doesn’t failure……
Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice (@amvinfe) considers the troubling use of injunctions, SLAPP suits, and superinjunctions that prohibit the press from performing its duty to inform the public on matters of importance. The topic was back in the news this week after a superinjunction obtained by the U.K. Ministry of Defence to block…
