Breaches: Page 2


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    Providers urge HHS to clarify Change data breach reporting requirements

    More than 50 provider groups are asking the federal government to publicly state that UnitedHealth should handle data breach reporting stemming from the cyberattack on its subsidiary.

    By Emily Olsen • May 22, 2024
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    Remote-access tools the intrusion point to blame for most ransomware attacks

    Self-managed VPNs from Cisco and Citrix were 11 times more likely to be linked to a ransomware attack last year, At-Bay research found.

    By May 16, 2024
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    Securing the cloud

    A host of new technologies and a spate of incidents at top providers means businesses have even more cloud security conundrums to consider. 

    By Cybersecurity Dive staff
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    Every Dropbox Sign user, account holders or not, stung in cyberattack

    An attacker intruded the electronic signature platform’s production environment and accessed a trove of user data, including OAuth tokens.

    By May 2, 2024
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    Congress grills UnitedHealth CEO over Change cyberattack

    Legislators slammed Andrew Witty over the company’s lack of cybersecurity practices and the impact of the breach, which may have compromised the data of a third of Americans.

    By Emily Olsen • May 2, 2024
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    CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds

    Threat actors are going after critical security flaws in widely used applications, but human error is still at the root of business security woes.

    By May 1, 2024
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    Change Healthcare, compromised by stolen credentials, did not have MFA turned on

    AlphV deployed ransomware nine days after it used access to a Citrix portal on Change’s network to move laterally within systems, CEO Andrew Witty said in testimony prepared for a House subcommittee hearing set for Wednesday.

    By April 30, 2024
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    At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down

    Critics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris have left the enterprise giant on its back foot.

    By April 30, 2024
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    Kaiser exposed up to 13.4M plan member records to third parties

    The largest data breach reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights so far this year comes as regulators reconsider healthcare’s use of tracking technologies.

    By Susanna Vogel • April 29, 2024
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    Enterprises are getting better at detecting security incidents

    Google Cloud’s Mandiant saw significant improvements in how organizations track down threats, yet hackers are still abusing common threat vectors.

    By April 23, 2024
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    UnitedHealth admits it paid a ransom in Change Healthcare attack

    The insurer also confirmed Monday that more than 20 screenshots of potentially stolen patient data were posted on the dark web for about a week.

    By Emily Olsen • Updated April 24, 2024
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    Palo Alto Networks quibbles over impact of exploited, compromised firewalls

    The security vendor downplayed the impact of exploit activity, describing most attempts as unsuccessful, but outside researchers say 6,000 devices are vulnerable.

    By April 23, 2024
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    Mitre R&D network hit by Ivanti zero-day exploits

    Exploits of Ivanti VPN products have hit roughly 1,700 organizations. To Mitre, guidance from the vendor and government fell short.

    By April 22, 2024
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    Frontier Communications hit by cyberattack, IT systems impacted

    The telecom provider said a cybercrime group intruded its IT infrastructure and gained access to PII. The operational disruption following its containment "could be considered material."

    By April 19, 2024
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    Cisco Duo MFA message logs exposed in third-party breach

    About 1% of the MFA and single sign-on provider’s business customers are impacted. An attacker intruded the third-party vendor’s systems via phishing.

    By Updated Aug. 26, 2024
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    Palo Alto Networks fixes maximum severity, exploited CVE in firewalls

    The security vendor said a “limited number of attacks” were linked to the exploited vulnerability. Volexity observed exploits dating back to March 26.

    By April 16, 2024
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    With Sisense compromise, the race begins to understand the impact

    CISA is working with private industry partners to investigate the attack on the data analytics platform with particular concern about the impact on critical infrastructure. 

    By April 12, 2024
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    CISA assessing threat to federal agencies from Microsoft adversary Midnight Blizzard

    Microsoft previously warned that the Russia-linked threat group was expanding malicious activity following the hack of senior company executives, which it disclosed in January.

    By April 5, 2024
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    Microsoft Exchange state-linked hack entirely preventable, cyber review board finds

    The technology giant’s corporate culture fell short on security investments and risk management, and needs significant reforms, according to a damning report by the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board.

    By April 3, 2024
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    AT&T hit with class action suit over massive data breach

    The breach was a “direct result” of AT&T’s failure to implement adequate cybersecurity procedures, the suit alleges.

    By Alexei Alexis • April 2, 2024
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    Change Healthcare faces potential class action as lawsuits rack up

    At least six federal lawsuits seeking class-action status were filed since the cyberattack, alleging the technology firm didn’t have reasonable cybersecurity measures.

    By Emily Olsen • March 8, 2024
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    Fidelity Investments Life Insurance says customer data breach linked to third-party hack

    The incident at Infosys McCamish also led to a data breach of more than 57,000 Bank of America customers.

    By March 8, 2024
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    Amex cardholder data exposed in merchant processor hack

    The point-of-sale attack on a merchant processor may have compromised card numbers, expiration dates and cardholder names, Amex said in a state regulatory filing.

    By Caitlin Mullen • March 5, 2024
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    Bank of America customer data exposed in IT provider breach

    Infosys McCamish Systems, which works closely with the lender, was impacted by the cybersecurity incident in November that exposed customer Social Security numbers and other account information.

    By Rajashree Chakravarty , Feb. 13, 2024
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    HHS settles cybersecurity investigation with Montefiore Medical Center

    The nonprofit will pay $4.75 million to settle allegations that data security failures allowed an employee to steal and sell the protected health information of thousands of patients.

    By Emily Olsen • Feb. 8, 2024
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    Mortgage industry attack spree punctuates common errors

    Attacks against Mr. Cooper Group, Fidelity National Financial, First American Financial and loanDepot impacted operations and put customers in a bind.

    By Feb. 6, 2024