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One of the biggest private healthcare systems in the US, Ascension, has notified patients that personally identifiable information (PII) including health data, was stolen in a previously unannounced attack affecting a former business partner in December 2024. The incident follows Read More …
Health insurance firm Blue Shield has revealed a data breach has exposed protected health data of over 4.7 million members. The information was leaked to Google’s analytics and advertisement platforms following a misconfiguration of Google analytics on Blue Shield sites. Read More …
More than 1.6 million people are now thought to have been affected by the May 2024 cyberattack at Landmark Admin, twice as many as originally thought. The company confirmed the news in an updated report filed with the Office of Read More …
The car-rental company Hertz is warning its customers that a data breach exposed personal information including driver’s licenses, credit-card data, contact information and in some cases social security or passport numbers. The company said that hackers breached Cleo Communications, a Read More …
NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document. The document was published on Friday as part of the lawsuit that Meta-owned Read More …
MOONSHINE and BADBAZAAR are examples of trojans; they have malicious functions hidden inside an otherwise functioning app that can be downloaded from app stores or online file-sharing services. These apps are designed to trick a user into downloading and installing Read More …
WK Kellogg, the company behind the Kellogg’s cereals, has been hit by a major data breach. Cybercriminals from the ransomware group Clop exploited a vulnerability in the software of an external supplier, stealing employees’ personal data. The data breach took Read More …
Europcar has reportedly suffered a data breach in which it lost sensitive data on hundreds of thousands of customers. A threat actor with the alias ‘Europcar’ posted a new thread in an underground forum, claiming to have “successfully breached Europcar’s Read More …
Security researcher Evan Connelly discovered an enormous flaw affecting one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world that could allow any single person to view the recent incoming call log for potentially any Verizon phone number. A vulnerability in Read More …
A hacker is claiming to have stolen a “highly sensitive” dataset from Check Point – but the company is looking to play down any concerns users might have. The cybercriminal, going by the name of CoreInjection, posted about the dataset Read More …