A Hacker Faked His Own Death–Then Claimed To Have Sold Marriott Customer Data...
Thomas Brewster reports: A hacker told the FBI earlier this year that he sold access to the personal data of Marriott hotel customers on a Russian forum, according to a search warrant obtained by...
View ArticleIlluminate Education Defeats Data Breach Lawsuit for Second Time
Christopher Brown reports: Illuminate Education Inc. defeated for the second time a proposed class action alleging it failed to protect the personal information of more than 3 million elementary and...
View ArticleFrom ransomware to attacks on vendors, school districts face multiple threats
Shirley Bilye provides an update on a ransomware attack affecting an Illinois school district: Meredosia-Chambersburg school district has been able to get most of its computer system back online after...
View ArticleIBM, Johnson & Johnson Hit With Second Health Data Breach Suit
Tonya Riley reports: IBM Corp. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. face a Florida man’s proposed class action over an August data breach that potentially exposed the personal health...
View ArticleAttorney General James Warns New Yorkers Impacted by Medical Company’s Data...
November 28 NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today warned New Yorkers impacted by a data breach at a medical transcription company, Perry Johnson & Associates, to take action to...
View ArticleLine operator says 440,000 personal records leaked in data breach
Kyodo News reported: Tech giant LY Corp. reported a massive data breach on Monday, saying as many as 440,000 items of personal data, including more than 300,000 linked to Line messaging app users, were...
View ArticleMore than 1 million Michiganders affected by Welltok cyberattack
Kristen Jordan Shamus reports: More than 1 million Michiganders were affected by a cybersecurity breach at Welltok Inc., a software company contracted to provide communication services for Corewell...
View ArticleCBIZ KA Notice of Data Privacy Incident (Prime Healthcare)
CBIZ KA, a third-party vendor for Prime Healthcare (Prime), discovered a security incident involving CBIZ’s use of MOVEit Transfer software, which has recently reported a security vulnerability. Prime...
View ArticleWelltok databreach affects CHI St. Alexius patients
Elizabeth Shores reports: Patients at CHI St. Alexius are receiving letters from Welltok, Inc., a third-party vendor, about a significant data breach. Welltok said it learned at the end of July about a...
View ArticleUS School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in Raptor Technologies Data Leak
Matt Burgess reports: Thousands of emergency planning documents from US schools—including their safety procedures for active shooter emergencies—were leaked in a trove of more than 4 million records...
View ArticleRaptor Technologies’ unsecured blob exposure was worse than they...
On January 11, DataBreaches noted a concerning blob exposure discovered by Jerome Fowler and first reported by vpnMentor. As WIRED’s Matt Burgess reported: Last month, security researcher Jeremiah...
View ArticleTx: BISD phone system now back online with new vendor following ransomware...
Fox4Beaumont reports: The Beaumont ISD phone system is now back online with a new vendor following a nationwide ransomware attack on January 23 that impacted the district’s entire phone system,...
View ArticleReports of data breach on Class Charts platform
Schools Week reports: The information watchdog is investigating reports of a data breach on the Class Charts behaviour management platform, which is used by tens of thousands of teachers. Some parents...
View ArticleUS military notifies 20,000 of data breach after cloud email leak
Zack Whittaker The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information was exposed in an email data spill last year. According to the breach...
View ArticleHack at Services Firm Hits 2.4 Million Eye Doctor Patients
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Medical Management Resource Group, which does business as American Vision Partners, works with – and “shares” a management system, IT and infrastructure with – 12...
View ArticleChange Healthcare responding to cyberattack; few details known at this point
Early yesterday, Change Healthcare reported that they were experiencing enterprise-wide connectivity issues. They didn’t call it a cyberattack at that point, but by mid-day, their status reports were...
View ArticleEverything old is new again? MCNA Dental allegedly suffers second big data...
The Everest Ransomware Team has a new post on their leak site: Company has the last 24 hours to contact us using the instructions left.In case of silence, all data will be published More than 1 million...
View ArticleUK: Data on nearly 1 million NHS patients leaked online following Qilin...
Alexander Martin reports: People with symptoms of sensitive medical conditions, including cancer and sexually transmitted infections, are among almost a million individuals who had their personal...
View ArticleAT&T ordered to pay $13M settlement in latest setback for company
Paulina Okunytė reports: After allegedly paying nearly $400,000 for a ransom in May, AT&T is reaching for its wallet again. This time, it’s to settle a cloud breach investigation led by the FCC. In...
View Article600,000 Prison Inmates to Share in $6.49M Breach Settlement
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee A misconfigured web server and the exposure of sensitive information for nearly 600,000 prison inmates in 2022 will cost medical claims processing company CorrectCare $6.49...
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