The CyberWire Pro Privacy Briefing for 1.7.20
Foreign exchange service Travelex was indeed hit by Sodinokibi ransomware. The city of Pensacola, Florida is offering free LifeLock identity protection to some fifty-seven-thousand people whose data the attack might have touched. The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) still has issues with the identity and credit protection measures it contracted for in the wake of two breaches it sustained during 2015. A Wall Street Journal piece marvels at the ways in which novel biometric modalities (like gait, which isn't new but which is still unfamiliar to most) and even implants are likely to pervade the workplace.