A recent leak of 85,000 cannabis dispensary files, including 30,0000 customer records, has put dispensaries and other industry stakeholders under pressure to fortify their... Leak of 30,000 cannabis customer records heightens need for effective data security

A recent leak of 85,000 cannabis dispensary files, including 30,0000 customer records, has put dispensaries and other industry stakeholders under pressure to fortify their systems and processes to comply with data privacy regulations and laws.

Cybercriminals are increasingly infiltrating third-party partners and supply chains as a means to gain a foothold in an organization’s networks and systems. Threat actors look for weak links to gain access to sensitive data, and once they do, they can restrict access to critical data in a ransomware attack or disrupt the business from an operations perspective. As cannabis enterprises move from siloed, manual processes to connected technologies and more sophisticated automated operations, they open themselves to these and other types of attacks.

Though we do not know at this time if the recent breach resulted in any malicious behavior, it presents a good opportunity to review cybersecurity concerns for cannabis businesses throughout the supply chain and the internal policies and procedures that can help address them.

WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

The leak by THSuite, a vendor of cannabis dispensary software, exposed at least 30,000 files containing personally identifiable information (PII), and possibly protected health information (PHI), of medical and adult-use cannabis customers, according to vpnMentor, the web privacy firm that discovered the leak. [Read More @ Cohn Reznick]

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