Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. What are the other emerging breach trends?
The French government is pursuing a new law that will grant the country's law enforcement agencies sweeping power to snoop on suspected cybercriminals and other online miscreants by remotely accessing their phones and computers. The measure is now headed to the French National Assembly.
The personal information of nearly 35 million Indonesian passport holders is up for sale on the dark web for $10,000 by notorious hacktivist Bjorka, who routinely criticizes the Indonesian government, publishing damaging information about lawmakers on social media. The government is investigating.
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Ransomware continues to be the biggest threat to the European healthcare sector, but the region also is experiencing an uptick in distributed denial-of-service attacks tied to hacktivist groups, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity warned.
India's Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of 2022. The government expects to introduce the bill during the monsoon session of the Indian Parliament, which begins July 20. The previous bill was withdrawn amid much criticism.
A ransomware attack in May that and compromised the sensitive information of 319,500 individuals, including addiction treatment center patient data, has so far generated three proposed federal class action lawsuits against the Pennsylvania real estate firm that owns the medical group.
A Tennessee medical clinic and surgical center is notifying more than half a million patients and employees that their personal information may have been stolen by cybercriminals in an April cyberattack that disrupted healthcare services for several days.
Over five dozen British academics joined a widening group of technology firms and privacy groups in criticizing a U.K. government bill aimed at protecting children from online harassments by weakening encryption. In an open letter, they said the bill is "doomed to fail."
Swedish data privacy officials issued fines against two of four companies found to have violated rules against the export of European users' data due to their use of Google Analytics, which was found to contravene EU privacy regulations due to the potential risks of U.S. government surveillance.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that the information of at least 100,000 individuals has been compromised in hacking incidents at HHS contractors involving exploitation of a flaw in managed file transfer software MOVEit from Progress Software.
The European Commission is set to finalize its digital wallet initiative after the proposal achieved political consensus on the core elements concerning its implementation. The latest digital monetary initiative comes as Europe rolls out plans for a digital euro.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss the potential fallout from an SEC investigation of SolarWinds and its CFO and CISO, why the number of individuals affected by Clop's campaign against MOVEit is on the rise, and highlights from InfoSecurity Europe.
This week, the U.S. sanctioned Russians running influence campaigns, the owner of the Monopoly darknet drug market was charged, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch flaws before July 13, Suncor Energy suffered a cyberattack and Petro-Canada gas stations were affected.
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