Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people’s data


HealthEquity, a US fintech firm for the healthcare sector, admits that a “data security event” it discovered at the end of June hit the data of a substantial 4.3 million individuals.

Stolen details include addresses, telephone numbers and payment data.… The incident began in March but was only detected in June. The company said in a letter to those affected that it received an alert on March 25 about a “systems anomaly requiring extensive technical investigation and ultimately resulting in data forensics” and that work continued until June 26 – the point at which it became aware that criminals had stole sensitive data.

Read more…
Source: MSN New


Sign up for our Newsletter


Related:

  • FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies

    November 7, 2020

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a security alert warning that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to access and steal source code repositories from US government agencies and private businesses. Intrusions have taken place since at least April 2020, the FBI said in an alert sent out last month and made public ...

  • US, Brazilian law enforcement seize $24 million in cryptocurrency generated through online fraud

    November 5, 2020

    US and Brazilian authorities have seized $24 million in cryptocurrency connected to an online scheme that allegedly defrauded “tens of thousands” of investors. Upon request from the government of Brazil, US law enforcement participated in “Operation Egypto,” a Brazilian federal investigation into the suspected scam, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Wednesday. Read more… Source: ZDNet  

  • QBot phishing lures victims using US election interference emails

    November 4, 2020

    The Qbot botnet is now spewing U.S. election-themed phishing emails used to infect victims with malicious payloads designed to harvest user data and emails for use in future campaigns. Qbot (aka Qakbot, Pinkslipbot, and Quakbot) is a banking trojan with worm features actively used since at least 2009 to steal financial data and ...

  • Abandoned Hunter Biden’s laptop contained phone numbers for the Clintons, Secret Service officers and most of the Obama cabinet

    November 1, 2020

    The son of the man expected by many to be America’s next President abandoned a laptop containing a treasure trove of top-secret material, including his father’s private emails and mobile phone numbers, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In an astonishing lapse, Hunter Biden chose to protect his MacBook Pro computer – crammed with what an ...

  • Wroba Mobile Banking Trojan Spreads to the U.S. via Texts

    October 30, 2020

    The Wroba mobile banking trojan has made a major pivot, targeting people in the U.S. for the first time. According to researchers at Kaspersky, a wave of attacks are taking aim at U.S. Android and iPhone users in an effort that started on Thursday. The campaign uses text messages to spread, using fake notifications for “package ...

  • Hacker releases Georgia county’s election-related files

    October 29, 2020

    Hackers on Tuesday released a sample of stolen election-related documents from networks in Hall County, Ga., as part of their efforts to pressure county officials into paying a ransom for control of the files. The Wall Street Journal reported that the batch of files, which were largely administrative and nonsensitive in nature, came as part of ...