Customers’ personal information has been stolen from one of France’s major ISPs. Free S.A.S. confirmed the breach this past weekend. According to the firm, no passwords, bank card information, or the contents of communications (emails, SMS, or voicemails) were involved, and operations were not affected. But Bitdefender reports that the situation may be more serious […]
The Record reports: Four people were arrested in Italy on Friday, with dozens more under investigation, in connection with an alleged conspiracy that links current and former officials in the country’s security services to a private intelligence agency for the purposes of building illegal dossiers. The alleged creation of such dossiers has been a growing […]
CSO reports that increased pressures are putting CISOs in the hot seat, but should they bear all the blame when the inevitable comes? Should the entire C-suite have skin n the game? When security vendor Portnox reported in a survey that 77% of CISOs say they are either very or extremely worried about losing their job when […]
Eight months after the biggest breach ever involving patient data, Change Healthcare informed the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR) that it has sent individual notifications to 100 million affected patients. This is the first time they have revealed any actual number since an April update where they […]
A costly lesson to learn, but it sounds like Merck learned it. Fortune reports: Cybersecurity has always been a priority, but got even more attention inside Merck after the company was stung by the NotPetya cyberattack in 2017, which reportedly damaged more than 30,000 of the company’s computers. It led to $1.4 billion in claims […]
There are so many data breaches and data leaks every day that potential class action lawsuits or announcements of law firm investigations of breaches seems somewhat de rigueur by now. But not all lawsuits stem from huge breaches. Here’s one that stems from a mistaken configuration that exposed student information for 24 hours. Reuters reports: […]
The Change Healthcare ransomware attack that was first disclosed in February 2024 continues to cause problems and make headlines. HIPAA Journal reports on the financial impact: The cost of the Change Healthcare ransomware attack has risen to $2.457 billion, according to UnitedHealth Group’s Q3, 2024 earnings report. Revenues in the third quarter increased by 9% year-over-year […]
The Record reports: Insurance firm Globe Life is being extorted by hackers after data on more than 5,000 people was stolen from a subsidiary. The company told regulators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it reported the incident to federal law enforcement. “Based on the Company’s investigation to date, which remains ongoing, the Company […]
Security Week reports that Japanese electronics giant Casio has revealed that the recent cyberattack was carried out by a ransomware group and confirmed that the incident has resulted in a data breach: Casio said last week that it had detected unauthorized access to its network on October 5. The incident resulted in a system failure and some […]
