Privacy

Tennessee-based Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter, Illinois-based Activate Healthcare, and Maine-based Mount Desert Island Hospital have disclosed being impacted by separate healthcare data breaches between April and May, HealthITSecurity reports.

A federal data privacy law can offer some clarity to companies still managing all the fragmented state regulation in the United States.

Swedish telecommunications provider Tele2 and local online retailer CDON have been fined by the country's data protection regulator IMY more than $1.1 million and less than $30,000, respectively, for using Google Analytics, which was found to be in violation of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation rules, according to TechCrunch.

U.S. nonprofit financial services firm for academics Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America was confirmed to be compromised in the widespread Cl0p ransomware attack involving the exploitation of a vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software by Connecticut-based Trinity College and Vermont-based Middlebury College, both of which reported data breaches as a result of the ransomware attack against TIAA, TechCrunch reports.

U.S.-based fraud detection firm TeleSign, its parent company Proximus, and major telecommunications provider BISC have been accused of violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy has been urged by Sens.

Separate health data breaches have been disclosed by Oregon-based digital health firm Kannact, Massachusetts-based mental health and addiction treatment center New Horizons Medical, and Philadelphia-based orthopedic clinic Vincera Institute, HealthITSecurity reports.

More organizations have confirmed compromise stemming from the widespread Clop ransomware attacks involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer app, including the California Public Employees' Retirement System, as well as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young, which are two of the Big Four accounting firms worldwide, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.