In a recent interview with Rachel Klugman Seeger of North Country Communications, she raised the question of how the current administration’s closures of six HHS regional offices would affect HHS OCR’s investigations into HIPAA breaches. It was a great question, so DataBreaches put the following questions to HHS OCR: (1) How many breach investigators have…
While some states are decreasing the amount of time entities have to notify the state or individuals of a breach, the reality is that many entities are nowhere near complying with even more lenient deadlines. HIPAA, for example, allows entities no more than 60 calendar days from discovery of a breach (the first day they…
Jakob Emerson reports on what is a disputed claim of insider-wrongdoing: Kaiser Permanente has terminated its national director of corporate security investigations, Craig Chew, amid allegations he received confidential data from a California criminal database accessed by an Oakland police officer, the Mercury News reported April 6. Mr. Chew, a former police officer, was fired along with…
Chain IQ said it and 19 other companies had been the target of a cyber-attack resulting in a data leak that was published online on the darknet. CNA reports: Swiss bank UBS on Wednesday said it had suffered a data leak due to a cyber attack against one of its providers, but that no client…
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$380,000 paid out on the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 for exploits targeting car infotainment units, operating systems, and chargers. The post Over $380,000 Paid Out on First Day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The reconnaissance activity targeting American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was part of a broader set of partially-related intrusions into several targets between July 2024 and March 2025. “The victimology includes a South Asian government entity, a European media organization, and more than 70 organizations across a wide range of sectors,” security researchers Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom
