Insurance startup leaks sensitive customer health data
Zack Whittaker reports: A software startup that provides independent insurance brokers with customer management software has exposed highly sensitive information on thousands of insurance policy...
View ArticleOxnard city officials investigate data breach
Jeremy Childs reports: Oxnard city officials learned of a data breach last week that may have affected the personal data of utility customers in the city. On Friday, the city was contacted by a bank...
View ArticleUPDATED: Dignity Health units disclose breaches in Arizona, Nevada, and...
Last month, Dignity Health reported breaches to HHS that involved three of their hospitals in Nevada: Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – San Martin (1764 patients); Dignity Health St. Rose...
View ArticleBlue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois notifies members after vendor alerts them...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) uses a vendor, Dane Street, to provide peer to peer reviews of insurance claims that are denied. On May 10, Dane Street notified BCBS that on April 9, law...
View ArticlePossible data breach of Wellington billing and payment system
Scott Sutton reports: Wellington officials said Thursday they were recently notified about potential unauthorized charges on credit cards used by customers to pay their utility bills. In a written...
View ArticleDelta sued over 2017 breach not disclosed to them for six months by...
Christina Davis reports on a class action suit filed against Delta Airlines where the main complaint appears to be that customers were first notified of the hack until six months after it occurred. […]...
View ArticleData leak hits Trident Group, cyber crime cell registers FIR
Hindustan Times reports: Crucial data and passwords of Ludhiana-based Trident Group, one of the leading business houses in the region, have allegedly been leaked, prompting the Punjab Police’s cyber...
View ArticleFlorida probes possible misuse of confidential driver’s license info
Steve Bousquet and Lawrence Mower report: State law enforcement authorities said Friday they are investigating the possible criminal misuse of confidential driver license data in a case involving a...
View ArticleAU: University of New South Wales loses data after IBM storage failure
Julian Bajkowski reports: UNSW students are facing the prospect that some information saved to the university’s online storage has been lost for good after a 16 hour-long outage this month blamed on...
View ArticleTokyo court: Data in Benesse leak not private enough for redress
A court opinion out of Tokyo may make it harder for plaintiffs in breach lawsuits in Japan to demonstrate harm or injury worthy of compensation. The breach and lawsuit against Benesse Corporation have...
View ArticleMidwest City notifies residents of incident that affected numerous...
Midwest City, Oklahoma reports that about 2,300 customers were potentially affected by a breach involving software needed to use Click2Gov. As Dark Reading recently explained: Risk Based Security’s...
View ArticleTicketmaster investigates potential data security breach
Jackie Fox reports: Ticketmaster Ireland has notified customers about a potential breach of security compromising their payment details. Anyone who bought a ticket from the site between February and...
View ArticleFrom data security darling to cyber fall guy, Monzo experiences a breach of...
Finextra reports: After basking in the glow of exposing the Ticketmaster data breach last week, digital challenger bank Monzo has itself become the victim of a data leakage that saw the personal...
View ArticleFortnum & Mason shoppers’ details stolen in Typeform’s data breach
Natasha Bernal reports: Fortnum & Mason has admitted that thousands of customers have had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack on the upmarket grocer. The retailer said that around 23,000...
View ArticleCosta Coffee Applicant Details Hacked in PageUp Breach
Ed Targett reports: The personal details of Costa Coffee and Premier Inn job applicants have been stolen after a data breach of owner Whitbread’s online recruitment system, run by Australia’s PageUp,...
View ArticleMyEtherWallet Warns of [Another] Hack, Urges Hola Users to Move Funds
CCN reports: Popular Ethereum wallet interface and token wallet MyEtherWallet is – yet again – at the center of a significant security breach and has warned its users utilizing a popular VPN to move...
View ArticleFollow-Up: MedEvolve provides notice of leaky FTP server
On May 16, DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving MedEvolve. The breach had been reported to this site by an independent researcher, who had found that some of MedEvolve’s clients’ patient...
View ArticleUpdate: BP data breach affected 60,000 after malware attack on PageUp job portal
Julie Iles reports that estimates of the PageUp breach impact on BP applicants has increased significantly: BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal has compromised the data of more job...
View ArticleMT: Bozeman says security breach stole some utility customers’ credit cards
More impact of the Click2Gov breach reported previously on this site. ABC Fox reports: The city says some customers that used its Click2Gov utility payment system in 2017 may have had their credit...
View ArticleSome Kanawha County employees receive data breach notices after ComplyRight...
Rick Steelhammer reports: Some Kanawha County employees whose health insurance coverage is issued through the county may have had personal information accessed during a data breach of the website of a...
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