Toyota Motor Corp. reportedly decided to suspend all operations starting Tuesday because of a suspected cyberattack on Kojima Industries, its manufacturing partner. The suspension means the company’s output will be down by around 10,000 cars, according to a report from media agency Nikkei Asia.
Gaps in federal regulations concerning the security and privacy of health data falling outside HIPAA's umbrella are getting filled to some extent by various state laws. But that's creating additional challenges, says privacy attorney Kirk Nahra of the law firm WilmerHale.
Anyone trying to make sense of data breach trends faces a transparency challenge. Too often, a lack of detail undercuts consumers' ability to assess their identity theft risk and businesses' ability to block emerging attacks or ensure that their supply chains remain secure.
A Montana-based healthcare organization is notifying nearly 214,000 individuals of a hacking incident affecting patients, employees and business associates. The breach - described as a "sophisticated criminal attack" - is the second major hacking incident reported by the entity since 2019.
Hacking incidents still dominate the major health data breaches being reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the first months of 2022 by far, with only one other type of breach appearing on the federal tally so far this year. Are organizations missing other breaches?
A Seattle, Washington-based community health center operator is facing a class action lawsuit in the aftermath of a data exfiltration incident reported last year as affecting more than 650,000 individuals. The breach also involved data allegedly found posted for sale on the Marketo data leak site.
Are data breaches getting worse? So far for 2021, the number of records that were reportedly exposed declined slightly, while the total number of reported data breaches increased both in the U.S. and globally.
GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding website that had become the go-to platform for donors supporting the Canadian "Freedom Convoy" protests, went offline on Monday following a reported cyberattack in which donor information was allegedly leaked.
The January cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross, which compromised the data of more than 515,000 highly vulnerable people, was specifically targeted at the organization, using code designed for execution on the ICRC servers, according to Director General Robert Mardini.
Reports say that Ukraine's defense ministry and two banks have fallen victim to a cyberattack on Tuesday. This follows what appeared to be mild escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict over the weekend, in which top U.S. officials warned that Russia could invade the former Soviet state this week.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has begun an investigation into a data leak reported by Harbour Plaza Hotel Management on Feb. 9. The report says it appears that approximately 1.2 million customers of the Harbour Plaza hotel chain seem to have been affected.
A serious cyberattack hit Slovenia's largest media firm, Pro Plus, last week, affecting the broadcasting services and website operations of the country's top private TV channel, Pop TV. The company says it is working with the Slovenian CERT to investigate the breach.
Hefty proposed settlements have been reached in class action lawsuits involving two separate health data breaches affecting millions of individuals. The incidents were reported by a Texas-based administrative services vendor in 2021 and a Puerto Rico-based clearinghouse in 2019.
In case anyone doubts that Russia is the epicenter of ransomware operations, follow the money, as Chainalysis finds that "roughly 74% of ransomware revenue in 2021 - over $400 million worth of cryptocurrency - went to strains we can say are highly likely to be affiliated with Russia in some way."
Bipartisan legislation introduced by two U.S. senators aims to kick-start the modernization of "outdated" health privacy laws by creating a commission to examine regulatory gaps, including how to address health data falling outside of HIPAA's reach.
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