The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered CafePress t-shirt and merchandise site former owner to pay a USD 500,000 fine for a data breach it suffered in 2018, but which it also covered up, that impacted more than 23 million customers. The FTC found out that CAfe Press failed to protect their personal data,...
In a recent audit, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a mechanism to improve the effectiveness of its data breach reporting process. HHS sets standards for protecting electronic health information and enforces compliance with them, where data breaches for entities under the...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a press release announcing that Paige A. Thompson, former Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer who gained illicit access to sensitive data belonging to Capital One customers, has been convicted. Thompson was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and damaging a...
The federal government of Canada has presented a bill by which it would compel companies in the energy, telecommunications, finance, and transportation sectors to either increase their cybersecurity systems or face expensive penalties in case of a breach. The bill is entitled Act Respecting Cyber Security and was presented by Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne...
A research by Recorded Future’s Inskit Group has analysed the spike in cyber attacks against Latin American institutions between January and May 2022. It suggests that those institutions were easy targets for ransomware attackers due to lack of proper cybersecurity hygiene in the region. The research concludes that those cyber attacks “could constitute a credible national...
The US based Shields Health Care Group (SHCG) reported a healthcare cyberattack impacting about 2 million patients who received various kinds of health services at more than 30 locations across New England. SHCG discovered suspicious activity on its network on 28 March 2022, related to access to certain of its systems from March 7 to...
The US communications giant Verizon has just released its 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report where it analyses over 23,000 incidents and 5,200 confirmed breaches from around the world. Find the report here.
In a recent press release the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has once more stressed the importance of good incident response and breach disclosure as part of a reasonable information security program, which is also underlined in some of its guidelines. The FTC underlines that when security breaches do occur, timely, accurate, and actionable security...
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