Tag: breach
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PowerSchool starts notifying victims of massive data breach
Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/powerschool-starts-notifying-victims-of-massive-data-breach/
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PowerSchool begins notifying students and teachers after massive data breach
The edtech giant is notifying state attorneys general about the breach but won’t say how many individuals have been affected First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/powerschool-begins-notifying-students-and-teachers-after-massive-data-breach/
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Mega-Breaches Bump Up 2024 Victim Count
Identity Theft Resource Center Catalogs 3,158 Known US Incidents in 2024. The number of U.S. organizations falling victim to a data breach appears to be holding steady, as viewed on an annual basis, according to the latest annual data breach report from the Identity Theft Resource Center, which counted 3,158 reported data breaches in 2024,…
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Mega Data Breaches Push US Victim Count to 1.7 Billion
The number of data breach victims increased 312% annually to exceed 1.7 billion in 2024, according to the ITRC 2024 Annual Data Breach Report First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mega-data-breaches-us-victim-17/
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US takes aim at healthcare cybersecurity with proposed HIPAA changes
Tags: access, authentication, best-practice, breach, compliance, control, csf, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dora, encryption, finance, framework, government, group, healthcare, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, intelligence, jobs, law, malware, mfa, network, nist, penetration-testing, phishing, privacy, ransom, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, security-incident, service, skills, technology, threat, tool, update, usa, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementThe US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a consultation on stricter rules for the safeguarding of electronic health records.The proposed revamp of security rules covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is designed to address the increased risk from cyberattacks such as ransomware against healthcare environments.The revamped rules…
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What Makes This “Data Privacy Day” Different?
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cloud, data, data-breach, finance, identity, infrastructure, malware, monitoring, phishing, privacy, ransomware, risk, scam, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityAs we celebrate Data Privacy Day, Bernard Montel, Tenable’s EMEA Technical Director and Security Strategist, wants to remind us that we live in a digital world and that we need to protect it. With data breaches a daily occurrence, and AI changing the playing field, he urges everyone to “do better.” Launched in April 2006…
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SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a new zero-day bug to breach customer networks
SonicWall said the bug is “confirmed as being actively exploited in the wild” by malicious hackers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/sonicwall-says-hackers-are-exploiting-a-new-zero-day-bug-to-breach-customer-networks/
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Privacy Roundup: Week 4 of Year 2025
Tags: access, ai, apt, attack, backup, botnet, breach, cctv, cve, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, exploit, firmware, flaw, google, group, identity, infrastructure, korea, lazarus, leak, login, malicious, malware, north-korea, phishing, phone, privacy, regulation, remote-code-execution, risk, router, scam, service, software, startup, technology, threat, tool, update, virus, vulnerability, windowsThis is a news item roundup of privacy or privacy-related news items for 19 JAN 2025 – 25 JAN 2025. Information and summaries provided here are as-is for warranty purposes. Note: You may see some traditional “security” content mixed-in here due to the close relationship between online privacy and cybersecurity – many things may overlap;…
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Change Healthcare Breach Impact Doubles to 190M People
One of the largest data breaches in history was apparently twice as impactful as previously thought, with PII belonging to hundreds of millions of people sitting in the hands of cybercriminals. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/change-healthcare-breach-190m-people
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Nursing Home, Rehab Chain Says Hack Affects Nearly 70,000
RansomHub Theft Hit Patients of 2 Dozen HCF Facilities and Home Healthcare Unit. A chain of more than two dozen skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities is notifying tens of thousands of patients whose information was compromised in a hacking incident last fall. Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang RansomHub claims to have published 250 gbytes of data stolen…
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TalkTalk confirms data breach involving a third-party platform
UK telecommunications firm TalkTalk disclosed a data breach after a threat actor announced the hack on a cybercrime forum. UK telecommunications company TalkTalk confirmed a data breach after a threat actor claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on a cybercrime forum and offered for sale alleged customer data. A threat actor named >>b0nd
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Change Healthcare Breach Toll Now Reaches Nearly 190M Americans
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/change-healthcare-breach-toll-now-reaches-nearly-190m-americans
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American National Insurance Company data likely stolen in MOVEit hack exposed
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/american-national-insurance-company-data-likely-stolen-in-moveit-hack-exposed
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Updated Change Healthcare breach toll reaches nearly 190M
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/updated-change-healthcare-breach-toll-reaches-nearly-190m
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Hackers steal $85 million worth of cryptocurrency from Phemex
The Phemex crypto exchange suffered a massive security breach on Thursday where threat actors stole over $85 million worth of cryptocurrency. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-steal-85-million-worth-of-cryptocurrency-from-phemex/
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Change Healthcare Breach Impacted Data Of 190 Million People: UnitedHealth
UnitedHealth says that the 2024 breach of Change Healthcare impacted the data of 190 million people, up from the prior estimate of 100 million people. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/change-healthcare-breach-impacted-data-of-190-million-people-unitedhealth
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TalkTalk Confirms Data Breach, Downplays Impact
UK telecoms firm TalkTalk has confirmed falling victim to a data breach after a threat actor boasted about hacking it. The post TalkTalk Confirms Data Breach, Downplays Impact appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/talktalk-confirms-data-breach-downplays-impact/
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UnitedHealth hikes number of Change cyberattack breach victims to 190M
The new estimate nearly doubles the company’s previous report of 100 million affected individuals, already the largest healthcare data breach ever reported to federal regulators. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/change-healthcare-attack-affects-190-million/738369/
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Change Healthcare Now Counts 190 Million Data Breach Victims
Cost of Attack Has Reached $3.1 Billion for Parent Company UnitedHealth Group. One of the biggest data breaches of 2024 is even worse than previously reported, as the tally of Change Healthcare breach victims has now reached 190 million individuals, and costs tied to the attack $3.1 billion, according to its owner, U.S. health insurance…
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Inside CyberArk’s security strategy
CyberArk CIO Omer Grossman talks up the company’s security-first ethos, the importance of an assumed breach mentality and how the company is addressing threats from the growing use of AI First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618330/Inside-CyberArks-security-strategy
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Fenix24 Buys vArmour IP to Boost Cyber Resilience, Recovery
Focus on Pre-Breach Resilience and Post-Breach Recovery Via Mapping Dependencies. By acquiring vArmour’s intellectual property, Phoenix 24 will enhance its recovery services with advanced application visualization and dependency mapping. CEO Mark Grazman said the move will streamline recovery processes during ransomware attacks and improve organizational readiness. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/fenix24-buys-varmour-ip-to-boost-cyber-resilience-recovery-a-27375
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SaaS Breaches Skyrocket 300% as Traditional Defenses Fall Short
Obsidian found that threat actors are focusing on SaaS applications to steal sensitive data, with most organizations’ security measures not set up to deal with these attacks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/saas-breaches-defenses-short/
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A pickle in Meta’s LLM code could allow RCE attacks
Tags: ai, attack, breach, cve, cvss, data, data-breach, exploit, flaw, framework, github, LLM, malicious, ml, network, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, software, supply-chain, technology, theft, vulnerabilityMeta’s large language model (LLM) framework, Llama, suffers a typical open-source coding oversight, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution on servers leading to resource theft, data breaches, and AI model takeover.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-50050, is a critical deserialization bug belonging to a class of vulnerabilities arising from the improper use of the open-source library (pyzmq)…
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Change Healthcare Data Breach Impact Grows to 190 Million Individuals
The impact of the Change Healthcare ransomware-caused data breach has increased from 100 million to 190 million individuals. The post Change Healthcare Data Breach Impact Grows to 190 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/change-healthcare-data-breach-impact-grows-to-190-million-individuals/
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Change Healthcare Breach Almost Doubles in Size to 190 Million Victims
Change Healthcare has claimed 190 million customers were affected by a mega-breach last year First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/change-healthcare-breach-doubles/
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TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data
A hacker claims to be selling the data of 18.8 million TalkTalk customers, but the telecoms giant says this figure is ‘significantly overstated’ First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/talktalk-investigating-data-breach-after-hacker-claims-theft-of-customer-data/
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Gravy Analytics Breach, Subaru Starlink Vulnerability Exposed
In this episode, we discuss the latest issues with data brokers, focusing on a breach at Gravy Analytics that leaked 30 million location data points online. We also explore a vulnerability in Subaru’s Starlink system that allows unrestricted access to vehicle controls and customer data using just a last name and license plate number. Co-host……
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Innovative Approaches to Secrets Scanning
Is Traditional Cybersecurity Enough in the Age of Automation? Imagine this. You’re in charge of your company’s cybersecurity, and you’ve invested in the best protection money can buy. But a data breach happens, and you’re left wondering where things went wrong. Could the intrusion have been prevented? Is there a better way to safeguard your……
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Cyberangriff auf eine Kryptoplattform aus Singapur
At least $69 million stolen from crypto platform Phemex in suspected cyberattack First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/69-million-stolen-cyberattack-crypto-platform-phemex