AP reports: A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests, and blocked online access to patient records. An Ascension spokesperson said it detected “unusual activity” Wednesday on its computer network systems. Officials refused to…
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Ohio lottery data breach impacted over 538,000 individuals
Pierluigi Paganini On Christmas Eve, a cyberattack targeting the Ohio Lottery resulted in the exposure of personal data belonging to 538,959 individuals. The organization is notifying the impacted people. Attackers gained access to names or other personal identifiers in combination with Social Security Numbers of the impacted individuals. “On or about December 24, 2023, the Ohio…
Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people
Bill Toulas reports: Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website. The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine belonging to the Human Events Media Group, which also operates the American ‘Human Events’ news platform. Earlier this month, both news…
Au: Shock for customers as personal details leaked in worrying breach
Zak Wheeler reports: Hackers have cracked a popular mortgage lender’s servers and gained access to the personal information of its clients. Firstmac, an Australian non-bank mortgage lender, sent out a round of emails to customers this week alerting them to the fact that their data may have been breached. Information accessed by hackers included bank accounts, passport…
Dell notifies customers of breach; seller “Menelik” is ShinyHunters (2)
On April 28, a new forum user on BreachForums called “Menelik” claimed to have 49 million Dell Technologies customer records for sale. The Daily Dark Web provided a screencap and details from the listing. The customer data purportedly includes data between 2017 and 2024, with “full names, addresses, cities, provinces, postal codes, countries, unique 7-digit…
TCS Employee Suspended After Reporting a Security Incident, Reddit Post Goes Viral
Purvi Khemani reports: A Reddit user recently shared a troubling experience on the platform. They claimed they were fired from TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) after reporting a security issue. Using the handle @Personal_Stage4690, they posted on the ‘Developers India’ subreddit, saying, “I reported a security incident in tcs where my manager ware (was) making employees…