American healthcare provider Universal Health Services (UHS) is facing a lawsuit filed in 2020 over a data breach. The suit will proceed, but only for one of the affected patients, Stephen Motkowicz, …
TurgenSec finds 345,000 files from Filipino solicitor-general’s office were breached
According to UK cybersecurity firm TurgenSec, roughly 345,000 sensitive files from the solicitor-general of the Phillippines have been leaked. Some of the information exposed pertains to ongoing legal …
Data Breach Impacts 1 in 4 Wyomingites
Wyoming's Department of Health released a statement admitting to exposing personal health information belonging to more than a quarter of Wyoming's population. The data breach occurred when files …
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US Drilling Giant Gyrodata Reveals Employee Data Breach
Late last week, Gyrodata, a major oil drilling specialist, conceded that it had suffered from a ransomware attack that likely led to the compromise of employee data, including former and current …
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Oil giant Shell discloses data breach linked to Accellion FTA vulnerability
Shell has disclosed a data breach affecting its stakeholders. The breach was a result of the Accellion FTA vulnerability, which was disclosed earlier this year, however, victim companies were not made …
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Utah Company Stored Passport Scans on Unsecured Server
Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unsecured server hosted by Utah-based company Premier Diagnostics on February 22, in which he found sensitive information pertaining to 50,000 …
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Massive Supply-Chain Cyberattack Breaches Several Airlines
A communications and IT vendor for almost all of the world's airlines, SITA, has been breached in a highly sophisticated attack that compromised passenger data stored on the company's servers. The …
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Passwords, Private Posts Exposed in Hack of Gab Social Network
Gab, a social networking platform that caters to conservatives, has been targeted by the Distributed Denial of Secrets group (DDoSecrets), which claims to have more than 70 gigabytes of data …
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177% increase: Hackers grabbed 21.3 million healthcare records in the second half of 2020
CI Security recently released a new report detailing how hackers are increasingly targeting the healthcare industry. According to CI, the number of healthcare data breaches skyrocketed in the second …
Over Three Million US Drivers Exposed in Data Breach
US car company DriveSure has suffered from a data breach in which three million of its customers were exposed. A cybercriminal has posted the data to a dark web forum, according to Risk Based …
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