Privacy

Open authentication standards industry group FIDO Alliance has moved to strengthen biometric security amid concerns regarding bias and security threats with its new Face Verification Certification program that uses at least 10,000 tests for biometric performance evaluations, reports SiliconAngle.

UK public service broadcaster BBC had information from nearly 25,290 current and former employees exfiltrated following a data breach of its occupational pension scheme, which is one of the largest across the country, according to The Guardian.

CNN reports that operations at major U.S. nonprofit hospital network Ascension continue to be hobbled by a ransomware attack earlier this month, which nurses at its hospitals noted have begun to endanger patient safety amid the lack of "safety guardrails" as manual prescription information inputs and the lack of electronic health records persist in the aftermath of the incident.

Taiwanese computer hardware firm Cooler Master has confirmed being impacted by a data breach following threat actor Ghostr's claims of having hacked the company's website on May 18, purportedly resulting in the theft of 103 GB of data, BleepingComputer reports.

House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce lawmakers have approved an overhauled draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would not only provide additional data collection, retention, and utilization restrictions for U.S. businesses but also impose updated reporting requirements, reports CyberScoop.

Major U.S. title insurance provider First American Financial Corporation had information from almost 44,000 individuals compromised following a cyberattack in December, which led to the takedown of some of its systems, according to BleepingComputer.

U.S. ticket sales and distribution firm Ticketmaster was admitted to have been hacked by the ShinyHunters threat operation, which claimed to exfiltrate information from 560 million users part of a 1.3 TB database, according to Hackread.

U.S. prescription management firm Sav-Rx had the data of more than 2.8 million individuals exfiltrated following a cyberattack in October, Security Affairs reports.