Nonprofit software and data services giant Blackbaud is facing a class action lawsuit with the US District Court District of South Carolina after donors’ data was hacked by cyber criminals. Hackers breached Blackbaud’s systems on February 7, 2020, but the intrusion...
Residents of South Dakota recently received a letter from the Department of Public Safety stating that they may have been affected by an information data breach on July 19 that targeted the DPS Fusion Center database used to share COVID-19 patient names and addresses...
Less than a year since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, Walmart is being sued for violating the new data regulations. After an unspecified incident, cyber-criminals were able to access customers’ names, addresses, financial information, and...
Hacking, malware, and social engineering get a lot of attention as potential sources of loss in the cyber insurance world, and with good reason – 2019 data from a cyber-first carrier indicate these three vectors accounted for 62% of that carrier’s claims.[i] But that...
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that a disgruntled employee was recently sentenced to a year and a half in prison and three years of supervised release after he was found guilty for hacking his former employer, costing the company more than $800,000 in...