June 4, 2024
A top US spy chief said China is increasingly using its companies to find vulnerabilities in their own computer networks and then tapping that knowledge to target foreign nations and industries. “We’re really seeing China be very aggressive,” General Timothy …
September 28, 2023
Marsh McLennan wants the Second Circuit appeals court to reconsider its August decision that overruled a district court and reinstated a former employee’s lawsuit against the company over a 2021 data breach. Marsh McLennan (MMC) asserts that the employee lacks …
September 13, 2023
Two proposed class actions have been filed in federal court in Massachusetts against Mapfre U.S.A. Corp. and its affiliate Commerce Insurance Co. over a recent data breach that one of the lawsuits contends may have exposed customer data for more …
August 15, 2023
The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation reports that the large-scale data security breach of the MOVEit software has compromised the personally identifiable information of roughly 42,000 Vermonters and more than 38 million consumers nationwide. The breach occurred when CLOP Ransomware …
July 25, 2023
Covington & Burling must identify some clients caught up in a 2020 hack on the law firm to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge in Washington ruled on Monday in a case that could impact future cyberattack …
May 12, 2023
Toyota Motor Corp. said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base who signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade due …
April 25, 2023
The recent data breach of personal information for thousands of users of Washington D.C.’s health insurance exchange, including members of Congress, was caused by basic human error, according to a top administrator. The revelation came from prepared statements submitted in …
March 14, 2023
A Framingham, Massachusetts man was sentenced this week for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. Gustaf Njei was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 27 months in prison and two years …
December 13, 2022
A US government probe into how many mobile phones belonging to diplomats and government workers have been infected with spyware could “easily run to the hundreds,” according to a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Jim Himes, a Democrat representative …
December 12, 2022
When Daniel DePetris, a U.S.-based foreign affairs analyst, received an email in October from the director of the 38 North think-tank commissioning an article, it seemed to be business as usual. It wasn’t. The sender was actually a suspected North …