Proposed legislation called the "snoopers' charter," which would allow British intelligence agencies to collect data on a large scale, cleared further parliamentary scrutiny this week despite mounting criticism from privacy advocates, watchdog groups and technology companies.
A federal jury said Wednesday that Palo Alto Networks directly violated another cybersecurity firm's patent rights for a "threat intelligence gateway" network security technology and awarded Centripetal Networks more than $150 million in the verdict.
A federal judge has again given the green light for a proposed consolidated class action lawsuit against Meta to proceed. The litigation claims the firm unlawfully collected patient data from the websites of hospitals and other providers through the use of its Pixel tracking tool.
Network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds moved to dismiss a federal lawsuit accusing the company and its CISO of securities fraud after they allegedly misstated the efficacy of its cybersecurity controls. Russian intelligence hacked the company in an incident disclosed in 2020.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed why crypto-seeking drainer scam-as-a-service operations are thriving, a novel legal move that recovered a hospital's stolen data, and a ground-breaking case involving bitcoin that could streamline recovery for victims.
A federal judge said he is inclined to let proceed a putative class action lawsuit against Meta over its gathering of data from medical center patient portals through a web activity tracking tool. U.S. District Judge William Orrick for the District of Northern California heard arguments.
The ubiquity and anonymity of cryptocurrencies are fueling economic, legal and ethical challenges that put healthcare entities in the crosshairs of cybercriminals, said David Hoffman, general counsel of Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, which recently filed a lawsuit against ransomware gang LockBit.
A North Carolina healthcare system has agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit involving its use of tracking tools in its websites and patient portals. The suit alleges the website trackers sent sensitive patient information to third parties without their consent.
A cloud services firm has turned over to a New York hospital alliance the patient data stolen in a ransomware attack by LockBit. The hospital group had filed a lawsuit against LockBit as a legal maneuver to force the storage firm to return data the cybercriminals had stashed on the vendor's servers.
A fertility testing laboratory has agreed to improve its data security practices and pay up to $1.25 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2021 ransomware attack that compromised sensitive health information of about 350,000 patients.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed how the surge in API usage poses challenges for organizations, why good governance is so crucial to solving API issues and how The New York Times' legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft highlights copyright concerns.
Merck & Co.'s proposed settlement with insurers over a $1.4 billion claim related to the NotPetya attack will change the language the insurance industry uses to exclude acts of war in its policies, and organizations need to consider how those changes affect risk, said attorney Peter Halprin.
Cybercriminals are extorting some patients and threatening them with swatting in the wake of a recent cyberattack on a Seattle cancer center. The incident, stemming from a Citrix Bleed exploit, has triggered multiple lawsuits and affected the personal data of at least 1 million people.
A proposed settlement has been reached between Merck & Co. and several insurers that were appealing a 2023 court decision saying the insurance companies could not invoke "hostile warlike action" exclusions in refusing to pay drugmakers' claims filed after the 2017 NotPetya cyberattack.
It's time for companies dealing with non-HIPAA-regulated health information to plan their compliance with Washington state's My Health My Data Act, which goes into effect in the new year and affects organizations that are based in other states, said attorney James Hennessy of law firm Reed Smith.
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