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...
The Canadian Arnprior Regional Health announced that it suffered a cyber attack compromising data dating back since 1996. The center has published the list of medical data that might have been impacted, while investigation is still ongoing. The impacted information includes names, dates of birth, contact information, health card numbers, dates of hospital visits including...
The Italian DPA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has sanctioned Uber with a €4.240m fine for lack of transparency in the privacy policies, and missed notifications for a data breach occurred in 2017. Find the decision of the Garante (in Italian) here.
The US medical supplies company Solara suffered an incident in 2019 which reportedly affected more than 114,000 patients and also some of its employees. The breach involved personal identifying information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), where cyber criminals had accessed Solara’s Microsoft Office 365 accounts. Solara’s investigation confirmed that the accessed email accounts contained...
The Canadian media outlet CP24 informs that it has received a news from IKEA according to which it would have notified the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada of a data breach involving the personal information of nearly 100k customers. Find more on CP24 here.
According to the leading wire service in Italy, the Ansa, hackers had hit two Milan hospitals on Sunday 1 May and Monday 2 May. As a result of these attacks, the IT systems of the hospitals are down and they will have to restrict access to ERs and laboratory services Monday and Tuesday. Read more...
According to TechCrunch, a healthcare startup named myNurse, will shut down at the end of May due to a data breach exposing its users’ personal data.The breach was discovered on March 7 and consisted of an unauthorized individual accessing the app’s data. Demographic, health, and financial information were accessed, including medical histories, diagnoses, lab test...
According to the new directives issued by the Indian Government, organisations have six hours to report cybersecurity incidents. The requirement was proposed by India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) after identifying specific gaps at the origin of security incidents requiring more aggressive measures. Read more in this article from BleepingComputer.
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