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Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned health tech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said on Tuesday that the company has “substantially” completed notifying affected individuals about the massive data breach. Read More …
Millions of users of popular apps such as Vinted, Spotify, Candy Crush and Tinder may have had their sensitive location data stolen by an unknown hacker who has posted details on a Russian-language site popular with cyber-criminals. In what is Read More …
As part of Washington’s lawsuit, the state claims T-Mobile failed to ‘adequately secure sensitive personal information of more than 2 million Washingtonians’. This failure, the state claims, left those consumers vulnerable to fraud and identity theft. The suit claims that Read More …
InfoCert has had millions of its customers’ personal data stolen and put up for sale. A leading European certification authority and provider of digital identity services such as Italy’s SPID (Public Digital Identity System), InfoCert posted a public notice on Read More …
UN aviation agency ‘investigating’ security breach after hacker claims theft of personal data The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency that defines international operating standards for civil aviation, has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident. In a Read More …
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Read More …
A data leak at the software company Cariad, a subsidiary of German car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW), left the personal details of electric car owners in Europe available online for months, Germany’s Spiegel news magazine reported on Friday. The movement data Read More …
On April 25, the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) experienced a privacy breach. An outside entity, through a phishing campaign, gained access to multiple employee accounts, and files associated with the accounts. The files included the Social Security numbers Read More …
A U.S. judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware. In a historic ruling on Friday, a Northern California federal judge held NSO Group liable for Read More …
A recent data breach at SRP Federal Credit Union, based in South Carolina, has left over 240,000 members vulnerable to potential identity theft and financial fraud. Between Sept. 5 and Nov. 4, 2024, hackers accessed sensitive personal data, including Social Read More …
