Collaborate Disseminate
The Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Financial regulators have ordered Lotte Card to set up a dedicated call center for victims of a recent hacking incident and to prepare procedures for full compensation in cases of any fraudulent card use. The order com… Continue reading Watchdog orders Lotte Card to compensate victims of hack
Oscar Liu reports: Two public hospital doctors have been granted bail after being arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of leaking a cancer patient’s medical data to highlight alleged professional shortcomings by her operating surgeon. Observers, meanwhil… Continue reading Bail for 2 Hong Kong doctors accused of leaking data to implicate surgeon
From Google’s blog, today, to try to counter headlines about any major security concern: We want to reassure our users that Gmail’s protections are strong and effective. Several inaccurate claims surfaced recently that incorrectly stated that we … Continue reading Gmail’s protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false.
Shunsuke Minowa and Poonyisa Sornchangwat of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu write: 1. Background On 1 August 2025, Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee (“PDPC”) announced the issuance of 8 fines totaling THB 14.5 million (approximately USD 44… Continue reading Huge Fines Imposed by Thailand’s PDPC: A Major Alert on Data Privacy Violations (Thailand)
A.J. S. Dhaliwal, Mehul N. Madia, Maxwell Earp-Thomas of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton write: On August 19, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced a $795,000 settlement with a property management company for alleged viol… Continue reading Massachusetts AG Secures $795,000 Settlement for Alleged Data Security and Breach Notification Failures by Peabody Properties Inc.
Jessica Lyons reports: China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber officia… Continue reading FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned ‘nearly every American’
DutchNews.nl reports: The scale of a data theft from a Dutch national screening programme laboratory is far greater than initially reported, research agency Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland said on Friday. Hackers may have accessed the personal and medica… Continue reading EuroFins cancer screening hack far bigger than thought, agency says
The following is a machine translation of a press release at politie.nl: On August 27, the Rotterdam Police Cybercrime Team seized data from the VerifTools website’s servers during a seizure at a data center in Amsterdam. The operation was carrie… Continue reading Fake ID website busted; Dutch police deal a blow to criminal infrastructure
Riley Brennan reports: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified this week that an employee’s purported violations of workplace computer use policies cannot be criminalized under federal law as long as there is no evidence of hacking or… Continue reading 3rd Circuit Clarifies Scope of Computer Fraud Abuse Act With Employer’s Policies
Jonathan Greig reports: Federal officials are working with Nevada’s state government to help it recover from a cyberattack discovered on Sunday. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said it has been working with the FBI and other… Continue reading CISA steps in to help Nevada state government recover from cyberattack