Privacy

SecurityWeek reports the Australian mobile carrier Optus has confirmed that 2.1 million clients had their personal ID numbers compromised as a result of a data breach last month, nearly 900,000 of whom had data stolen from expired IDs.

LAUSD holds fast to position of not paying ransom to Vice Society ransomware gang, ransomware experts say education sector and businesses at large will continue to face these types of ransomware and data extortion attacks.

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have been called on by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to bolster efforts in ensuring proper consumer data protection against cyberattacks and investigating threat actors behind hacking incidents, CNN reports.

CyberScoop reports that the Federal Trade Commission has been called upon by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to evaluate privacy and security concerns related to daycare and early education applications.

Increased law enforcement scrutiny on the widespread data breach at Australia's second-largest mobile carrier Optus has prompted the alleged hacker dubbed 'optusdata' to withdraw the demanded ransom for the incident, which has impacted 11 million customers, according to BleepingComputer.

SecurityWeek reports that Samsung has been hit with a class-action lawsuit following two data breaches this year.

A GAO audit of the Medicaid telehealth program found that more oversight is needed of how providers are communicating the privacy and security risks to patients.