Wasn’t it predictable that someone at The London Clinic might try to snoop on the Princess of Wales’ medical records during her hospitalization in January? Were they able to access the records or did they just try but not succeed? If they succeeded, how did The London Clinic’s access monitoring and controls fail? The Mirror, […]
VX-Underground noticed data purportedly from AT&T being offered on a popular hacking forum: Today 70,000,000+ records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached. No information is available to indicate whether it is a 3rd party compromise, or which ‘division’ this data is from. Regardless, upon review we can confirm the stolen data […]
The MOVEit data breach, which affected more than 2,760 organizations and 95 million people, resulted in multidistrict litigation against Progress Software and numerous lawsuits against the organizations using the file-transfer software. One of the organizations sued was Sovos Compliance in Massachusetts. Top Class Actions reports that the firm has agreed to pay more than $3.53 […]
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a “Dear Colleague” letter addressing the cybersecurity incident impacting Change Healthcare, a unit of UnitedHealthcare Group (UHG), and many other health care entities. The cyberattack is disrupting health care and billing information operations nationwide and poses a direct threat to […]
Bleeping Computer reports that Okta is firmly denying that data supposedly being leaked on a hacking forum from its system is from a hack of its system in October 2023. On Saturday, a cybercriminal using the alias ‘Ddarknotevil’ claimed to be releasing an Okta Database containing information of 3,800 customers that was stolen during last year’s […]
Microsoft was one of two heavy hitters that reported being compromised recently. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also disclosed that it was recently compromised and had to take two systems offline due to vulnerabilities in IIvanti products. A CISA spokesperson confirmed to Recorded Future News that CISA “identified activity indicating the exploitation of […]
Even companies that invest a lot in security can get hit — and hit hard. In this week’s news, perhaps the biggest story involves Microsoft and Russia. The Associated Press reports: Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November […]
Published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on March 5, 2024:
There are many instances where businesses take a hit on their revenues after a breach, but then bounce back fairly quickly. Here’s an example where one victim hasn’t bounced back after a costly breach. The Telegraph reports: The outsourcing giant that collects the BBC licence fee has slumped to a £107m loss after it was hacked […]
The 2024 Breach Barometer reports 171 million health data records breached in the U.S. in 2023.
And that’s just the ones they could find numbers for! Request your free copy of the full report at Protenus.com.