Tag: data breach

April 4, 2024

City of Hope is a renowned cancer research and treatment center located in Duarte, California, United States. It is recognized for its comprehensive cancer care, innovative research, and compassionate patient support services. City of Hope suffered a data breach, the […]

March 29, 2024

Identified on April 17, the attack impacted systems associated with Point32Health’s Harvard Pilgrim Health Care brand, including systems serving Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Commercial and Medicare Advantage Stride plans and “used to service members, accounts, brokers, and providers”. “The investigation […]

March 21, 2024

93% of IT professionals believe security threats are increasing in volume or severity, a significant rise from 47% last year, according to Thales. The number of enterprises experiencing ransomware attacks surged by over 27% in the past year. Despite this […]

March 19, 2024

Mintlify helps developers generate code documentation. It requires access to the source code, such as GitHub repositories, to analyze it, understand its purpose, and create descriptions. In an incident notice on its website, the San Francisco-based company says that 91 […]

March 18, 2024

According to the company, it discovered that multiple work computers within its environment were infected with malware and disconnected them from the network. Furthermore, Fujitsu said in an incident notification written in Japanse, the investigation into the attack has revealed […]

March 14, 2024

Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan immediately notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National […]

March 12, 2024

On January 24, the company announced that some of its systems were taken offline due to “a technical issue” and that services would be disrupted for several days. EquiLend, which confirmed the next day that the disruption was caused by […]

March 1, 2024

Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it’s not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling – last year, they rose by 38 percent according […]

February 13, 2024

Indian tech services giant Infosys has been named as the source of a data leak suffered by the Bank of America. Infosys disclosed the breach in a November 3, 2023, filing [PDF] that revealed its US subsidiary Infosys McCamish Systems LLC (IMS) […]

February 12, 2024

Nearly half the citizens of France have had their data exposed in a massive security breach at two third-party healthcare payment servicers, the French data privacy watchdog disclosed last week. Payments outfits Viamedis and Almerys both experienced breaches of their […]

February 12, 2024

Willis Lease Finance Corporation has admitted to US regulators that it fell prey to a “cybersecurity incident” after data purportedly stolen from the biz was posted to the Black Basta ransomware group’s leak blog. The form 8-K filed with the […]

February 6, 2024

Verizon is notifying more than 63,000 people, mostly current employees, that an insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to their personal data. The privacy blunder happened in September, and the American telco giant attributed it to “inadvertent disclosure” and […]

February 2, 2024

Blackbaud, which had data on millions of people stolen from it by one or more crooks, has promised to shore up its IT defenses in a proposed deal with the FTC. In announcing the draft settlement, the US watchdog’s boss […]

February 1, 2024

Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting nonprofits. Stooping to new lows, the criminals are reportedly unwilling to reverse the attack on […]

January 31, 2024

Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover. On October 27th, the Cybernews research team discovered a misconfigured web server […]

January 30, 2024

As we kick off the new year, businesses and organizations will set new goals, implement fresh strategies, and work towards new milestones. If there’s one thing that never quite makes it on the list, it’s cybersecurity. Not as exciting as […]

January 30, 2024

Schneider Electric is a multinational company that specializes in energy management, industrial automation, and digital transformation. BleepingComputer first reported the attack that hit the Sustainability Business division of the company on January 17th. BleepingComputer contacted Schneider Electric which confirmed the […]

January 23, 2024

Australia’s government has used the “significant cyber incidents” sanctions regime it introduced in 2021 for the first time, against a Russian named Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov whom authorities have deemed responsible for the 2022 attack on health insurer Medibank Private. The […]

January 9, 2024

The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that hit the Capital Health hospital network in November 2023. Capital Health Regional Medical Center is a member of Capital Health System. Located in Trenton, New Jersey, Capital Health Regional […]

January 4, 2024

23andMe users’ godawful password practices were supposedly to blame for the biotech company’s October data disaster, according to its legal reps. Nope, the biotech firm’s infrastructure management was certainly not at fault in any way when 6.9 million users had […]