A Scottish school system decided not to use facial recognition in its secondary school cafeterias after international outcry. The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said Tuesday that the North Ayrshire Council failed to obtain freely given consent for the system.
Federal regulators hit Banner Health, which operates hospitals and other care facilities in multiple states, with a $1.25 million HIPAA settlement in the wake of a 2016 hacking incident that affected nearly 3 million individuals. Banner Health will also implement a corrective action plan.
Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, says he hopes to gather support for new bipartisan legislation this year to incentivize healthcare sector entities to meet certain minimum cybersecurity standards and tackle other top security concerns.
The FTC has for the first time enforced its almost 14-year-old health data breach notification rule. It hit a telehealth and prescription drug discount provider with a $1.5 million civil penalty for failing to inform consumers that it shares their data with advertisers and other third parties.
JD Sports, a sports fashion retailer with global operations, says personal details pertaining to about 10 million online customers of JD Sports and its Size?, Millets, Blacks, Scotts and MilletSport brands from 2018 to 2020 have been stolen by attackers and warns customers to beware of scammers.
The Dutch central bank fined Coinbase 3.3 million euros, saying the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange failed to comply with the national anti-money laundering statute. Since May 2020, Dutch law has required crypto companies operating in the Netherlands to register as money transmitters.
A review of internet of things manufacturers by Copper Horse shows that European companies fared the worst in having vulnerability disclosure policies. The European Commission has proposed legislation known as the Cyber Resilience Act that would make vulnerability disclosure policies mandatory.
Payment regulations in Europe have forced retailers to implement strong authentication that's phishing-resistant and facilitates more customer understanding, says FIDO Alliance's Christina Hulka. This has spurred a push for clients to confirm what they're purchasing and how much they wish to spend.
A Montana healthcare entity has agreed to pay $4.3 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit filed in the wake of a 2021 hacking incident affecting 214,000 individuals. The deal is the entity's second multimillion-dollar lawsuit settlement in the last four years involving a major breach.
Many enterprises want to move away from basic Security Configuration Assessment tools that monitor for CIS controls, but don’t have automated remediation or custom reporting. Beatrice Sirchis of Israel Discount Bank in New York shares her perspective on policy compliance beyond SCA.
A Midwest specialty medical care clinic has reported to regulators a health data breach affecting 134,000 patients involving one of its critical partners' previous use of Meta Pixel and Google tracking codes embedded in its websites and patient portals.
An update to acquisition regulations within the Department of Veterans Affairs says that contractors have one hour to report a security and privacy incident. The clock starts ticking after the incident has been discovered. The department says the rule change only codifies an existing requirement.
The European Parliament's Pegasus spyware committee heard draft recommendations calling for a ban on the commercial buying and selling of zero-day exploits and for an immediate moratorium on the sale and use of advanced spyware. The committee expects to finalize the recommendations this spring.
When the DOJ announced a "major, international cryptocurrency enforcement action," observers expected to see charges against a well-known firm. Instead, the agency charged a lesser-known figure, Anatoly Legkodymov, the Russian founder of Bitzlato, with facilitating $700 million in illegal activity.
CommonSpirit was negligent in failing to protect sensitive health data, resulting in a compromise affecting at least 623,000 patients and perhaps many more, allege plaintiffs in two proposed class action lawsuits filed against the Chicago-based hospital chain after a 2022 ransomware attack.
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