Financial Review reports: KPMG has sacked its former chief operating officer Eileen Hoggett from the firm’s partnership in a rare move after finding she had stored printed copies of confidential Lendlease board documents in her locker, shared them with her colleagues to win audit contracts, and repeatedly lied about it. A furious John Sams, the […]
Inside Higher Ed reports that recovery from the Canvas data breach encountered a glitch: In the aftermath, Instructure CEO Steve Daly vowed to be “transparent about what happened” and provide K–12 schools and higher education institutions “with information as quickly as we responsibly could.” Over the past two months, Instructure has worked “to conduct a detailed forensic […]
The Register reports: Accenture has confirmed an “isolated matter” after a cybercriminal put up for sale what they allege is 35GB of the consulting giant’s internal data, including source code, cryptographic keys, and cloud credentials. The listing, seen by The Register, appeared on a cybercrime forum on July 6 under the title “Accenture Data Breach,” posted […]
On June 27, AdaptHealth notified the Securities and Exchange Commission of a data breach originating at an unnamed contractor: AdaptHealth Corp. (the “Company”) is investigating a security incident whereby a threat actor gained unauthorized access to Company systems and exfiltrated certain data therefrom. Upon learning of the incident, the Company promptly activated its incident response […]
9to5Mac reports: A new report from Reuters details how Apple and its Indian supplier, Tata Electronics, are responding to a massive data breach that exposed sensitive files earlier this month. Here are the details. A few days ago, Tata Electronics confirmed that it fell victim to a cyberattack that, as reported by Reuters, stole confidential files from Apple and Tesla. […]
Help Net Security reports: LastPass disclosed that attackers used OAuth tokens compromised in a supply chain attack on Klue, a market intelligence platform that integrates with CRM and sales tools across organizations, to access customer data stored in its Salesforce environment. “On June 12th LastPass was made aware of an incident that occurred at Klue […]
Reuters reports: Consultancy firm Accenture (ACN.N), opens new tab said on Thursday it would take a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos and fully acquire asset intelligence company runZero and device security specialist NetRise in a combined deal valued at $4.18 billion. … The acquisitions will expand Accenture’s cybersecurity business into software for protecting industrial operations […]
Mashable reports: Nintendo of North America says it’s aware of what’s been described as a small third-party data breach affecting some of its employees. “Nintendo’s systems have not been compromised,” the company told Mashable in a statement, acknowledging that a third-party service was affected by an “issue.” Earlier this week, a hacking group calling itself ShadowByte$ […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients’ personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. The company says its cardiac monitoring service has been used to analyze more than 2 billion hours of curated heartbeat data from over 12 million patients. In a filing with the […]
HIPAA Journal reports: A $35,000,000 settlement has been agreed to resolve a long-running class action lawsuit against Labcorp over a 2018 cybersecurity incident at American Medical Collection Agency. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Labcorp), a provider of diagnostic testing services, had contracted with a company called Retrieval-Masters Creditor’s Bureau, Inc., which does business as American Medical […]
