A New Mexican city of roughly 45,000 people and an Indianan hospital operator have fallen victim to separate ransomware attacks this month. In other localized news, a data breach at a third-party educational testing service exposed information belonging to 52 students in New York State.
Academic researchers have reported vulnerabilities in the group communication protocols of three encrypted messaging apps -- WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema -- that could allow attackers to willfully subvert their integrity and confidentiality.
The 266-location Jason's Deli is notifying its customers that their payment card information may have been compromised through a point of sale data breach.
A newly proposed legislation introduced by two Democratic U.S. senators aims to impose stiff, mandatory penalties on credit reporting agencies (CRAs) like that fail to protect consumers' sensitive information from data breaches.
More than 5.3 million residents of North Carolina were victims of data breaches in 2017 - an escalating trend that has prompted state Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) to introduce newly proposed legislation to prevent further incidents and protect the public.
The Inspector General's initial review indicated that the names, Medicaid ID numbers, birth dates, diagnoses, Social Security numbers, addresses, and medical conditions of up to 30,000 recipients "were accessed in part or full."
India's national ID database containing the information of nearly 1.2 billion people was breached with cybercriminals selling access to the information for $8.
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