Data Breach News, Critical Infrastructure, Cyberattack, News
March 27, 2024
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Rewards for Justice – Reward Offer for Information on ALPHV BlackCat-linked Cyber Actors Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure

On February 15, the U.S. Department of State offered a $10 million reward for “information leading to the identification or location of any individual(s) who hold a key leadership position in the Transnational Organized Crime group behind the ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware variant.  In addition, a reward offer of up to $5,000,000 is offered for information leading to the […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, News
March 26, 2024
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Credit card company secures $48M verdict following decade-long legal battle over massive insider data breach

The Readable explains: A decade-long legal battle involving a data breach that affected the majority of the South Korean population concluded last week. The court confirmed a compensation award of $48 million to a credit card company. The Supreme Court of Korea has rejected the appeal of the defense and ordered the company to pay […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, Malware Ransomware, News
March 26, 2024
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Nursing Home Declares Bankruptcy, Claims Recent Cyberattacks Contributed

Data Breach Today reports: A Midwest operator of nursing homes has filed for bankruptcy, citing the effects of a ransomware attack last fall and fallout from the recent Change Healthcare outage as factors that contributed to its financial woes. See Also: Take Inventory of Your Medical Device Security Risks SC Healthcare Holdings LLC, which operates as […]

Cyberattack, Data Breach News, Europe, News
March 25, 2024
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China accused of “malign” cyberattack on UK’s Electoral Commission “after hacking data of 40 million voters”

The Independent reports: China has been accused of a “malign” cyberattack on Britain after it allegedly accessed millions of voters’ personal details during a hack on the election watchdog. The UK is poised to sanction those believed to be involved in Chinese state-backed interference, after deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden sets out details about the alleged incident later on […]

Data Breach News
March 17, 2024
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More than 70 million records purportedly from AT&T customers leaked online

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 […]

Data Breach News
March 16, 2024
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Sovos Compliance data breach $3.53M class action settlement

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 […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, Malware Ransomware
March 14, 2024
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HHS Office for Civil Rights Issues Letter and Opens Investigation of Change Healthcare Cyberattack

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 […]

Data Breach News
March 12, 2024
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Okta claims that data leaked on hacking forum is not from its systems

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 […]