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 […]

Data Breach News, News
March 10, 2024
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CISA forced to take two systems offline last month after vendor compromise

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 […]

Data Breach News, Cyberattack, News
March 10, 2024
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Microsoft admits Russian state hack still not contained. ‘This has tremendous national security implications’ 

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 […]