Andrew G. Simpson reports: Real estate software maker RealPage has been denied a $6 million computer crime insurance coverage claim because the stolen funds were not in its possession but were instead being held by a payment processing firm at the time of a phishing scheme. National Union Fire Insurance Co. (a unit of American…
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The Accellion breach also impacted Qualys; threat actors start dumping files
As I noted yesterday on Twitter, Qualys was added to threat actor CLOP’s leak site, raising the question as to whether the firm had been an Accellion client. They had. Qualys issued a statement later yesterday. It said, in part: Qualys has confirmed that there is no impact on the Qualys production environments, codebase or…
Indian state government website exposed COVID-19 lab test results
Zack Whittaker covers a data leak first reported by BleepingComputer. You can read TechCrunch’s report on the incident here.
AllyAlign notifies 76,348 members and providers of ransomware attack
AllyAlign Health (AAH), a Medicare Advantage special needs plan administrator, recently notified 76,348 members and providers of an attempted ransomware attack. But how successful were the threat actors? And what could the Virginia firm figure out and what couldn’t they figure out based on their investigation? According to AAH’s notification letter, the attack occurred on…
UK Reputation Risk Intelligence Company Left 30TB Server Exposed
WizCase researchers recently revealed that a U.K. analytics firm, Polecat, left 30TB of data and billions of records exposed on an elasticsearch server that was not secured. WizCase reports: Polecat, which successfully predicted the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential Election, had potentially conducted a similar set of research less than a week before the…
Ca: Snooping employee showed interest in pregnant women’s medical records, says lawyer
A years-old privacy breach at Central Health has had a particular impact on pregnant women and new parents, says a St. John’s lawyer who is filed a class-action lawsuit. Bob Buckingham says a disproportionate number of calls to his office regarding the breach are from people who say medical records relating to their pregnancies were…