CNBC reports that Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin from the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange, said he was released from prison early under the First Step Act signed by President Donald Trump.
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has been ordered by its minister Simeon Brown to immediately review the response to the sweeping data breach impacting patient information portal ManageMyHealth, which was threatened to have 400,000 exfiltrated files exposed should it refuse to pay the demanded ransom by Tuesday, reports Radio New Zealand.
The U.S. Treasury Department has reversed Biden-era sanctions imposed on executives Sara Hamou, Merom Harpaz, and Andrea Gambazzi, who had been subjected to punitive action due to their association with spyware vendor Intellexa, whose Predator spyware had been leveraged by governments and other threat actors for cyberespionage, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
StateScoop reports that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved new state legislation that would prohibit state and municipal governments from buying certain technologies from companies mandated to provide intelligence to foreign adversaries in a bid to bolster its cybersecurity posture.
France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has imposed a €1.7 million GDPR fine on software company Nexpublica for severe cybersecurity failures that led to a significant data breach, according to The Cyber Express.
