Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured Amazon Bucket, which was operated by a Turkish Legal advising company, INOVA YÖNETIM & AKTÜERYAL DANI?MANLIK. While Amazon offers the necessary tools to secure their services, Inova has not implemented these measures properly.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The man is responsible for the cyber attacks that in 2022 hit the Australian insurance provider Medibank. “ In November 2022, Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 million customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The company notified via mail hundreds of individuals that were impacted by the security breach and that that have had their personal data exposed in the attack. . Cox Media Group discovered the security breach the same day of the initial intrusion and immediately took down systems offline to avoid the propagation of the threat.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American [ NYSE:FAF ] is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in $6.2 billion in 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed. Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

All data is confidential, contains trade secrets. - 30 Gb user data - production line settings - repository with equipment configures - 26 Gb machine operation logs - 1.2 Gb - NDA The group published a set of files as proof of the security breach and threatens leak all the stolen data if the victim will not pay the ransom. . -

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

The unprecedented volume of unemployment insurance fraud witnessed in 2020 hasn’t abated, although news coverage of the issue has largely been pushed off the front pages by other events. The scammers typically use stolen identity data to claim benefits, and then have the funds credited to an online account that they control.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data. “Due to an attack on the systems, unauthorized persons gained access to personal data. Affected customers have now been informed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 Medibank announced that personal data belonging to around 9.7M Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 million customers. million customers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2016 data breach).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

VF immediately began taking measures to remediate the attack and launched an investigation into the security breach. “Based on VF’s preliminary analysis from its ongoing investigation, VF currently estimates that the threat actor stole personal data of approximately 35.5 million individual consumers.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A Girl Scouts of America branch in California suffered a security breach, hackers accessed data of 2,800 girls and their families. branch of the Girl Scouts of America, potentially exposing personal information for 2,800 members and their families. Security Affairs – Orange County, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Blue Cross of Idaho announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers accessed to the personal information of about 5,600 customers. The attackers were locked out and the portal was secured on March 22. We have not identified any unauthorized use of personal data and will keep close watch for illegitimate activity,”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The platform aims to personalize and optimize health programs for individuals, employers, health plans, and other organizations. The company disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America 2.6 million Genworth 2.5 million PH Tech 1.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Hackers breached into a computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov, according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, attackers accessed to the sensitive personal data of some 75,000 people. “The system that was hacked is used by insurance agents and brokers to directly enroll customers. .

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IT Governance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Cyber liability insurance helps organisations cover the financial costs of a data breach. Without insurance, organisations spend £3.6 million on average recovering from security incidents. By purchasing cyber liability insurance, organisations gain the resources they need at a fraction of the cost.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. According to the Ponemon Institute and IBM, the global average cost of a data breach is $4.24 But there’s a catch: Insurers are going to carefully assess your cybersecurity controls before writing any policy, and there are limits to coverage. Cyber Insurance is Booming.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) has agreed to a $65 million settlement in a class action lawsuit related to a data breach that resulted in the publication of images of 600 nude cancer patients. The healthcare network was the target a BlackCat ransomware attack, the security breach was discovered on February 6.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

In total, the databased revealed the records of 4 cardshop admins, 90 sellers,and 12,250 buyers of stolen data, including their nicknames, hashed passwords, account balance, and contact details for some entries. The database also exposed compromised payment and personal data traded on Swarmshop. ever since. About Group-IB.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On 11 August 2023, India’s long-awaited law governing data protection – the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ( DPDP Act ) – received the President’s assent and was published in the official gazette the following day. data subjects, using the GDPR terminology) located within India.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

The French Information and Digital Security Experts Club ( CESIN ) has estimated that 54% of French companies were subject to cyberattacks in 2021, [1] while France Assureurs has put cyberattack risks on top of all other risks for the sixth year in a row. [2] 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. However, in the end, Article L.12-10-1

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Data breaches, incidents in which personal information is accidentally or unlawfully stolen, lost, disclosed, accessed, altered or destroyed, can happen to organizations of any size and sector. Most data breach laws deal with personal data, which is essentially any information that can be associated with a particular person.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2024

IMS specializes in providing business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology (IT) services specifically tailored for the insurance and financial services industries. In February, Bank of America began notifying some customers following the IMS data breach. ” reads a press release published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. The FTC considers that ‘reasonable security’ doesn’t mean ‘perfect security.’ Equifax was not special in this regard.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Moreover, the operational consequences of a cyber attack should not only be analyzed in terms of compromising the personal data of its customers and employees. It is not just a matter of recommending investments in security measures because 95% of cyber attacks occur because of human error. there could be reputational damage.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“Our IT professionals were able to detect the unusual activity and believe we have stopped further unauthorized access of personal data on our servers.” Limited company information accessed and stolen related to some of our business partners include bank account data and, for U.S. partners, their taxpayer ID numbers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

The unusual activity was detected by the company on June 26th, then the rail giant launched an investigation into the security incident. rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes Wabtec. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2024

In March, the company suffered a cyber attack, and the Rhysida ransomware gang claimed to have stolen company sensitive data. The company sells new and used boats and yachts, offers marine-related services such as financing, insurance, and maintenance, and provides yacht charters and brokerage services.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with George Wrenn, founder and CEO of CyberSaint Security , a cybersecurity software firm that plays directly in this space. Then you have the folks whose security programs have run out of steam and they’re looking for a way to prove that they’re doing due care,” Wrenn said.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. may require a recorded, live video chat with the person applying for benefits. These days, ID.me

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

has exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of employees and millions of job candidates. The security loophole resulted in millions of private documents being revealed to the public. The post Myrocket HR platform’s data leak turns into privacy nightmare for employees appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2022, the ICICI Bank’s resources were named a “critical information infrastructure” by the Indian government – any harm to it can impact national security. However, despite the critical status of bank infrastructure on the national level, the security of crucial data was not ensured. million files belonging to ICICI Bank.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2019

Personally identifiable information belonging to roughly 90% of Panama citizens were exposed on a poorly configured Elasticsearch server. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server exposing personally identifiable information belonging to nearly 90% of Panama citizens. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It was clear most readers had no idea these new and more invasive requirements were being put in place at the IRS and other federal agencies (the Social Security Administration also is steering new signups to ID.me). These readers had reasonable questions: Who has (or will have) access to this data? ” Login.gov is run by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Now the news of another data breach made the headlines, a security breach has exposed the personal and protected health information for patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, EyeMed, and other eye care practices. Luxottica disclosed a security breach in the appointment scheduling application that took place on August 5, 2020.

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