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The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) announced late last week that nine of its staff members had fallen victim to a phishing campaign and that their email boxes were compromised on January 8, 2019. The intrusion was discovered on January 28, 2019. When the intrusion was discovered, the staff members’ changed their passwords to…

The cyber insurance market continues to evolve, and major questions remain unanswered. Should policies cover regulatory fines? Should first- and third-party claims be addressed in separate policies? The list goes on.

For the consumer, here is an interesting thought experiment: Is a company having limited access to cyber insurance actually a good thing? Aside from…

Players of the popular Fortnite video game have filed a proposed class action suit against the video game’s owner, Epic Games Inc. (“Epic”) alleging that Epic failed to protect players’ accounts, allowing hackers access to their payment details in a 2018 data breach. According to the suit, the players gave Epic their payment information in…

The 2019 calendar year had a rough beginning with several massive data breaches. Just this week, more than 600 million account details were stolen from 16 different websites:

  • Dubsmash
  • MyFitnessPal
  • MyHeritage
  • ShareThis
  • HauteLook
  • Animoto
  • EyeEm
  • 8fit
  • Whitepages
  • Fotolog
  • 500px
  • Armor Games
  • BookMate
  • CoffeeMeetsBagel
  • Artsy
  • DataCamp

The account details being sold on the dark web from…

We previously reported that Cottage Health, a health care entity operating several hospitals in California, settled with the State of California for $3 million in regard to a security incident that occurred in 2013. On February 7, 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release that it settled HIPAA violations in December…

Community Health System, located in Tennessee, has agreed to settle claims made against it arising from a 2014 data breach for $4.5 million. The data breach, believed to be caused by Chinese hackers, compromised the names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, and Social Security numbers of 4.5 million patients of the hospital system, which…

The San Diego School System has notified current and former students, as well as some employees, that hackers compromised its system and obtained access to a file that included detailed personal information of more than 500,000 students from the 2008-2009 school year.

The information accessible included the students’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, health information,…

Experian’s Data Breach Resolution group has released its Data Breach Industry Forecast 2019 Report, which provides predictions for data breaches in 2019, and outlines staggering statistics of data breaches that occurred in 2018.

One statistic is that the “number of records compromised in the first half of the year had already surpassed the total number…

Calling the Marriott data breach “one of the largest digital infestations in history,” a putative class action was filed in Oregon this week seeking up to $12.5 billion dollars in relief. It should come as no surprise that soon after Marriott announced its massive data breach affecting potentially 500 million customers in the Starwood reservations…