USA Herald reports: Tech conglomerate Fortive Corp. has agreed to a $3 million settlement to resolve a sweeping class action after two ransomware attacks in 2023 exposed the personal data of more than 34,000 individuals, according to a Washington federal judge’s preliminary approval. U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones, presiding in Seattle, signed off Thursday on the […]
Security Week reports: French retail chain Auchan is notifying hundreds of thousands of customers that their personal information was stolen in a data breach. The incident, the company said in notifications sent last week, impacted names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and loyalty card numbers. No banking information, passwords, or PINs have been compromised in […]
First, they impersonated your email domains and vendors in business email compromise and phishing schemes. Then we read how members of “The Com” and “Scattered Spider” would call your helpdesk and claim to be employees who needed a password reset. Impersonation is being taken to the next level. The Register reports: English speakers adept at […]
A provider of criminal background checks in the U.K. is dealing with a breach at a third-party developer. The Register reports: A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company. Access Personal Checking Services (APCS) has written to customers to notify them that […]
In what is currently the third largest health data breach of 2025, kidney dialysis provider DaVita has reported a ransomware attack to HHS. Bleeping Computer reports: Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 […]
Cyber Security News reports: A series of critical vulnerabilities across multiple internal Intel websites allowed for the complete exfiltration of the company’s global employee database and access to confidential supplier information. The flaws, stemming from basic security oversights, exposed the personal details of over 270,000 Intel employees and workers. The investigation from Eaton Works revealed […]
There is an update to the previously reported breach affecting Allianz Life customers. Bleeping Computer reports: Hackers have stolen the personal information of 1.1 million individuals in a Salesforce data theft attack, which impacted U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life in July. Allianz Life has nearly 2,000 employees in the United States and is a subsidiary […]
The following statement was issued by Orange Belgium S.A. earlier today. It relates to the breach previously acknowledged last month: At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts. No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email […]
A month after it announced a data breach that affected more than 1.4 million of its patients, a Richmond, Virginia medical practice is dealing with a wave of lawsuits. Richmond BizSense reports: Radiology Associates of Richmond has been hit with at least 10 lawsuits filed in federal court in recent weeks by plaintiffs claiming to […]
Settlement Marks OCR’s 15th Ransomware Enforcement Action and 10th Enforcement Action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative Source: HHS
