The Register reports: An extortion gang claims to have breached Freedman HealthCare, a data and analytics firm whose customers include state agencies, health providers, and insurance companies, and is threatening to dump tens of thousands of sensitive files early Tuesday morning. According to a claim posted Sunday on the shame site belonging to World Leaks, […]
Company said it notified customers nationwide after a tech glitch exposed confidential data, but multiple districts said they knew nothing about it. The 74 reports that although Diligent Corporation claims they notified all BoardDocs clients of a recently discovered data leak, many school districts had no awareness of any incident until The 74 contacted them. […]
The Daily Record reports an appellate decision that is probably quite a relief to Marriott International: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has reversed a lower Maryland court’s recertification of plaintiff classes in a pair of consolidated lawsuits filed against Marriott and an information technology service provider for a 2018 data breach, handing down a major […]
TechRadar reports: Security and compliance automation company Vanta has confirmed sharing sensitive customer data with other customers by mistake. In a statement (via TechCrunch), the company said a change it had made in the code resulted in a security breach. In it, some sensitive data from a small subset of customers was shared with other customers. […]
Personal information on more than 364,000 people may have been compromised as part of a third-party hack. Fast Company reports: Data analytics firm LexisNexis Risk Solutions said it suffered a data breach that could have affected the names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and contact information of more than 364,000 people. The company said […]
Tata Consultancy Services is conducting an internal investigation to determine whether it was the gateway for the cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer. The BBC reports: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has provided services to M&S for more than a decade. Earlier this week, M&S said the hackers who had brought huge disruption to the retailer had […]
Tiffany and Dior data breaches raise security questions for parent company LVMH Tiffany & Co. has confirmed a data breach affecting customers in South Korea, marking the second such incident involving an LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton brand after a similar case at Dior. The Chosun reports that on May 26, Tiffany Korea notified select […]
GovInfoSecurity reports: A slew of Western cybersecurity agencies warned Wednesday that Russian intelligence is targeting logistics and technology companies in a prolonged hacking campaign that includes an emphasis on internet-connected cameras situated along border crossings and military installations. The advisory includes indicators of compromise typical of an attack by Unit 26165 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate. […]
Insurance Journal reports an insider data breach that will leave many people wondering exactly what a government contractor did in terms of background checks on its employees. In this case, the two allegedly rogue employees at Opexus (formerly known as AINS) were twin brothers who were previously convicted and served time for hacking crimes: A […]
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced yesterday that Matthew D. Lane, 19, a student at Assumption University in Worcester, Mass., was charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with hacking into the computer networks of two U.S.-based companies and extorting the companies for ransoms. The two companies were not named in the Information […]
