Privacy

North Carolina-based Guilford College has confirmed having sensitive student, faculty, and staff data stolen in a ransomware attack last month by the Hive ransomware gang, which posted a sample of the stolen data on Friday, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The Irish Data Protection Commission, Meta’s main privacy watchdog in the European Union, levied the fine following disclosure of an investigation in the spring of 2021 that revealed over 530 million Facebook users’ information had been leaked on a public forum.

Jefferson Wells study finds that 71% of chief audit executives are now including environmental, social and governance (ESG) in their audit plans.

Proposed rulemaking from HHS aims to address care coordination and privacy challenges of substance use disorder patients under 42 CFR part 2, by aligning the rule with HIPAA.

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes an ongoing IT outage at One Brooklyn and a Community Health Network breach notice of unauthorized disclosure from its Pixel tool use.

Cyberespionage operation Bahamut has leveraged fake VPN apps in a malicious campaign targeted at exfiltrating sensitive data from Android devices, according to The Hacker News.

Cryptominers, RedLine info-stealer spread through fraudulent MSI Afterburner BleepingComputer reports that more than 50 websites masquerading as the MSI Afterburner GPU utility have been targeting power users and gamers using Windows devices with cryptocurrency miners and the RedLine information-stealing malware.