Data Breaches

Ariana Baio A website dedicated to leaking personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents was reportedly subject to a cyberattack that its founder believes may have originated in Russia. Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, told The Daily Beast that his website, ICE List, came under cyberattack Tuesday evening after the publication reported Skinner planned to release personal information, obtained through… Source

In a recent interview with Rachel Klugman Seeger of North Country Communications, she raised the question of how the current administration’s closures of six HHS regional offices would affect HHS OCR’s investigations into HIPAA breaches.  It was a great question, so DataBreaches put the following questions to HHS OCR:  (1) How many breach investigators have… Source

Jacqueline Sergeant reports: JPMorgan is seeking a temporary restraining order and injunctive relief in federal court against a former advisor, alleging he stole confidential information and is using it to solicit the firm’s clients to join him at his new affiliate, LPL Financial. In its complaint, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the… Source

Hyeon Ye-Seul reports: Korea’s data protection watchdog on Wednesday told e-commerce giant Coupang to stop publishing its own findings about a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of users, warning that unverified statements could mislead users and undermine an ongoing official investigation. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Coupang had disclosed… Source

Connor Jones reports: Eurail has confirmed customer information was stolen in a data breach, according to notification emails sent out this week. The European travel company, also known as Interrail to EU residents, initially posted the news on January 10, but affected customers, the number of whom was not disclosed, began receiving emails on January 13. … Source

Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, notified parents that attackers accessed a database containing the personal information and email addresses of current and former students, prompting password resets. The department disclosed the breach in letters sent to parents, stating that an unauthorized third party accessed students’ names, school names, year levels,… Source

Tom Latchem reports: Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees—including almost 2,000 agents working in frontline enforcement—have allegedly been released by a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower following last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good. The Jan. 7 killing of the mother by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has… Source

Nicole Wagner reports: Access to Southold’s online record-keeping system Laserfiche remains suspended with no timeline for restoration, more than six weeks after a cyberattack forced the town offline. Southold is currently completing $500,000 security upgrades, funded through a Town Board-approved bond, before restoring public access to the system after hackers breached servers on Nov. 24. Supervisor Al Krupski and the… Source

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A resident of Springfield, Tennessee, is expected to plead guilty to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system dozens of times over several months. Prosecutors say between August and October 2023, Nicholas Moore, 24, “intentionally accessed a computer without authorization on 25 different days and thereby obtained information from a… Source

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Cancer patients who participated in University of Hawaii Cancer Center studies during the 1990s may soon receive a notification that ransomware hackers stole their data in an August 2025 incident. The university’s treatment center – the only National Cancer Institute-designated center in the state – will notify a yet-undisclosed number of… Source