The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) have jointly released an updated guidance on collecting, using and sharing of Consumer Health Information. Posted in Federal Trade Commission, Privacy | Post a comment » It has been reported in arstechnica with Prison phone company leaked 600K users’ data and didn’t notify them, FTC says. Global waited 9 months to notify affected customers and in any event only notified 45,000. In the meantime hackers accessed billiions of bytes of this exposed data and put it on the dark web and was so advised in September 2020. It was only when a security researcher alerted the Global that it became aware of the problem. It alleges that Global failed to secure sensitive personal information of hundreds of thousands of users by posting unencrypted personal information of 650,000 users in the cloud in August 2020 without firewall protection, encryption and monitoring software. It has announced that it has taken action against Global Tel*Link Corp, a prison communications provider. It has its fair share of critics but is frenetic compared to Australian regulators. The hackers say they are demanding $4.5 million in exchange for deleting the stolen data and for Reddit to withdraw its API pricing changes.The US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is the most active Federal regulator in the United States of privacy and data breaches. But this seems like the perfect opportunity! We are very confident that Reddit will not pay any money for their data,” BlackCat wrote. “I told them in my first email that I would wait for their IPO to come along. In a post published on Saturday, titled “The Reddit Files,” BlackCat says it contacted Reddit twice – once on April 13 and again on June 16 – but did not receive a response. That same month, the gang also threatened to leak data allegedly stolen from Amazon-owned video surveillance company Ring. It’s unclear exactly what types of data the hackers have stolen, and BlackCat hasn’t shared any evidence of data theft.īlackCat was also linked to a March attack on Western Digital that saw hackers steal 10 terabytes of data from the company, including reams of customer information. However, BlackCat over the weekend claimed responsibility for the February intrusion and threatened to leak “confidential” data stolen during the breach. Reddit didn’t share any further details about the attack or who was behind it. Slowe added that the company had “no evidence” that personal user data, such as passwords and accounts, had been stolen. At the time, Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, or KeyserSosa, said that hackers had accessed employee information and internal documents during a “highly-targeted” phishing attack. Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini declined to answer TechCrunch’s questions but confirmed that BlackCat’s claims relate to a cyber incident confirmed by Reddit on February 9. In a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a February breach of the company’s systems. Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand – and reverses its controversial API price hikes.
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