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Some tips to protect yourself from ID theft after a breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently advised New York residents how to protect themselves after a medical transcription service cyberattack compromised the personal and protected health information of millions of New York residents. Some of the recommendations Attorney General James made are applicable to any data breach or data leak in which your identity […]
ID Theft Service Resold Access to USInfoSearch Data
Brian Krebs reports on a service that may be selling your identity information — including your Social Security number — to anyone and everyone, for anywhere from $8 to $40. With your identity information so easy for criminals or just anyone to buy, what are you doing these days to protect yourself from ID theft? […]
Ransomware attack on Ardent Health Services causes outages in multiple hospitals and states
Ardent Health Services owns and operates 30 hospitals and health systems with 200+ sites of care with more than 1,400 aligned providers in six states. Earlier today, they posted a security incident notice on their site: Ardent Health Services and its affiliated entities (“Ardent”) became aware of an information technology cybersecurity incident on the morning of […]
Nvidia’s Data Breach Blunder: A Case Study in Cybersecurity Negligence
TechStory reports: Nvidia, a renowned technology company, is facing a lawsuit alleging that one of its workers stole sensitive data from a former employer, Valeo, and then mistakenly divulged the stolen material during a video conference screen-sharing mishap. According to the lawsuit, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, a former Valeo employee who joined Nvidia in 2021, downloaded a […]
Henry Schein re-encrypted by BlackCat again
DataBreaches.net reports on a ransomware incident where the victim was re-encrypted — and then re-encrypted again. From there, things took a downward turn, with AlphV getting mad at Henry Schein and Coveware and re-encrypting Henry Schein to put more pressure on them to negotiate and pay. DataBreaches.net provides a chronology of updates, including what seems […]
GCHQ investigates cyber attack on hospital to the royals after data stolen
The Telegraph reports: GCHQ is investigating a cyber attack on the London private hospital favoured by the Royal family. The spy agency’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is probing what King Edward VII’s Hospital described as “an IT security incident” during which a “third-party” obtained confidential medical information such as doctors’ letters and pathology reports relating to some patients. The […]
East Texas hospital network diverts ambulances because of potential cybersecurity incident (1)
CNN reports: A network of hospitals in East Texas has not been able to accept ambulances to emergency rooms since Thanksgiving Day because of a “potential [cyber]security incident,” a hospital spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The hospital network, UT Health East Texas, is operating using “established downtime procedures” as the hospital investigates “a potential security incident” and works to bring computers back online, spokesperson Allison Pollan said in an email. Pollan did not respond to subsequent […]
AI generated cyberattacks are set to pose a major business operational risk
Digital Journal reports: What are the essential cybersecurity concerns for businesses as we head into 2024? To give some realistic expectations of what is to come for cybersecurity in the year ahead, Digital Journal sought the opinion of Skybox Security’s Adi Dubin. Dubin is particularly concerned about AI-generated cyberattacks. Indeed, threat actors’ use of generative AI has fuelled a significant […]