Michael Kan reports: April’s cyberattack on internet service provider Frontier Communications enabled hackers to steal Social Security numbers for 750,000 users. In a data breach notice sent to Maine’s attorney general, the ISP says the incident affected 751,895 people. The company is preparing to send out data breach notifications to affected consumers as the hacking group allegedly responsible…
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PruittHealth was hacked back in November. Here’s what we STILL don’t know.
What happens when threat actors leak data on the dark web but the victim entity doesn’t access it in time to figure out what was leaked? That’s what happened to PruittHealth in Georgia last year. How many people are they notifying because they can’t figure out what was accessed, acquired, or leaked? In November 2023,…
Numotion data breach affected 602,265 patients
In March 2023, United Seating and Mobility, LLC, d/b/a Numotion (“Numotion”) paid the government $7 million to resolve allegations that it made false claims in submitting reimbursement requests to Kentucky Medicaid, two of Kentucky Medicaid’s Managed Care Organization contractors (MCOs), MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid), and D.C. Medicaid (archived). Numotion is a nationwide provider of durable…
Russian hackers claim DDoS attack on Spanish defense company
Inti Landauro and Andrei Khalip reports: Santa Barbara Systems, a General Dynamics (GD.N) subsidiary in Spain that is refurbishing Leopard tanks for delivery to Ukraine, suffered a cyberattack on its website, a pro-Russia hacker group said. A spokesperson for General Dynamics confirmed that the defence contractor’s Spanish unit had been targeted in an attempted cyberattack “that…
HC3: Analyst Note: Healthcare Sector DDoS Guide
May 30, 2024 HC3: Analyst Note TLP:CLEAR Report: 20240530120 Executive Summary A Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which an attacker uses multiple systems, often referred to as a botnet, to send a high volume of traffic or requests to a targeted network or system, overwhelming it and making it unavailable…
Important Security Notice: Data Breach Incident on June 5, 2024 | CoinGecko
From their notice: CoinGecko, the world’s largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator, experienced a data breach on June 5, 2024, through its third-party email platform, GetResponse. How did the data breach happen? On June 5, 2024, around 06:30 AM UTC, we detected unusual activity on our third-party email marketing platform, GetResponse. An attacker had compromised a…