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AssuranceAmerica Breach Hits 7 Million: Credit Freeze Alone Won’t Protect You
TechTimes reports: Notification letters from a company called AssuranceAmerica began arriving in mailboxes on July 10 — and if one reached yours, you are among 6,998,886 people whose driver’s license numbers, insurance records, and in many cases Social Security numbers were stolen in a March cyberattack. The breach is the largest known exposure of Americans’ […]
Ryuk operator pleads guilty; Blackcat/AlphV conspirator gets nearly 6-year sentence
The Record reports two wins for law enforcement this week. U.S. prosecutors announced two milestones this week in their cases against major ransomware groups. Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, a 34-year-old Armenian national, pleaded guilty Wednesday in an Oregon federal court to conspiracy and computer fraud. For about six months beginning in November 2019, he accessed companies’ computer networks […]
Accenture admits to ‘isolated matter’ after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul
The Register reports: Accenture has confirmed an “isolated matter” after a cybercriminal put up for sale what they allege is 35GB of the consulting giant’s internal data, including source code, cryptographic keys, and cloud credentials. The listing, seen by The Register, appeared on a cybercrime forum on July 6 under the title “Accenture Data Breach,” posted […]
AdaptHealth Notifies SEC About Material Incident
BankInfoSecurity reports: A publicly traded home medical equipment and services supplier has told U.S. regulators that hackers recently stole a potentially large volume of patients’ sensitive health and personal information, including data from external electronic health record portals, in a social engineering incident. Pennsylvania-based AdaptHealth in a July 2 filing to the U.S. Securities and […]
The “Anonymous” Tip System That Wasn’t: Three Months Later.
DataBreaches.net has followed up on a breach involving very sensitive personal information. The breach has been called “BlueLeaks 2.0” in some circles, and “Navigate360” in other publications, but it occurred when a hacktivist acquired 8.3 million tips from various tiplines that were supposed to protect the anonymity of the tipsters. As DataBreaches.net reports, neither P3 […]
When managing your money, take a chatbot’s ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt
Don’t be too impressed or too trusting of advice from a chatbot. The Conversation reports: Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings to minimize the tax hit. She opens an AI chatbot, types in the details and gets a […]
Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
TechCrunch reports: The U.S. Army has reportedly fixed two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages and to call out President Donald Trump, the latest case of hackers compromising systems run by the federal government in recent months. Security researcher Ronald Lovelace told Cyberscoop, which first reported the defacements, that error pages were modified on […]
Major medical device manufacturer notifies nearly 4 million of breach
The Record reports: The world’s largest medical device company is notifying more than 3.8 million people that their data may have been exposed in an attack reportedly linked to the ShinyHunters cybercrime group. On April 24, Medtronic confirmed an unauthorized party had accessed data in certain corporate IT systems, but said it had not identified […]