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Yale New Haven Health Notifying 5.5 Million of March Hack
BankInfoSecurity reports: Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System is notifying more than 5.5 million patients that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, could have been stolen in a March hack. The incident, which is among several other recent major health data hacks, ranks as the largest health data breach reported to federal regulator so […]
DOGE-Trolling Ransomware Hackers Demand $1 Trillion
Forbes reports: The same criminal group behind the DOGE Big Balls ransomware attack has just upped the ante. A newly updated ransom note is now using Elon Musk and DOGE references with a demand for, are you sitting down, one trillion dollars from victims. Although there is no doubt that ransomware threats should be taken very seriously, […]
Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of 4.7 million people with Google for years
Blue Shield of California joined the ranks of entities that discovered they were unlawfully sending personal or protected health information of website visitors to advertisers via tracking pixels embedded on their sites. TechCrunch reports: Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California is notifying millions of people of a data breach. The company confirmed on Wednesday […]
Millions of KIA cars at serious risk of being hacked – they only need to know the car’s license plate number to open and start the car
All it took was knowing the license plate, and millions of KIA cars could be hacked in a matter of seconds. Unión Rayo reports that ethical researchers Sam Curry and Neiko Rivera found the vulnerability. It all starts with the portal Kia offers so users can connect their smartphones to the car. From there, they […]
Operators of New Jersey Company Sentenced to Prison and Enter into Related Civil Settlement Agreement for Roles in $127 Million Health Care Fraud and Kickback Scheme
Two operators of a New Jersey marketing company were sentenced to prison for their roles in conspiracies to commit health care fraud and to pay and receive illegal kickbacks Two operators of a New Jersey marketing company were sentenced to prison for their roles in conspiracies to commit health care fraud and to pay and […]
Cyberattack Knocks Texas City’s Systems Offline
Security Week reports that The city of Abilene, Texas, has been working on restoring systems that were taken offline to contain a cyberattack: The assault started on April 18, when some of the systems in the city’s internal network were reported as unresponsive, and prompted the immediate activation of the incident response plan. To secure […]
Conduent warns January breach impacted a ‘significant’ number of people
In January, Conduent reported that it had experienced an operational disruption due to a third-party compromise of one of its operating systems. They no longer refer to the incident as an “outage” and now refer to it as a “cyberattack,” but they still fail to clearly disclose whether this was a ransomware attack or not. Cybersecurity […]
The Sophos Annual Threat Report: Cybercrime on Main Street 2025
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