Two potential class action lawsuits involving data breaches have reportedly settled. One awaits final approval in October, but the other settlement is already final. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center data breach $450K class action settlement During April to June 2020, Charles J. Hilton PC (CJH), a firm hired by UPMC for billing services, allegedly suffered…
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AU: Researcher finds ACY Securities leaking 60 GB of User Data
ACY Securities describes itself as one of Australia’s fastest growing multi-asset online CFD trading providers. But as first reported by HackRead, the trading firm was leaking 60 GB of user data until independent researcher Anurag Sen persisted in trying to alert them to a misconfigured elasticsearch database. As seen by Hackread, the data included personally…
Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Pharmaceutical giant Novartis says no sensitive data was compromised in a recent cyberattack by the Industrial Spy data-extortion gang. Industrial Spy is a hacking group that runs an extortion marketplace where they sell data stolen from compromised organizations. Yesterday, the hacking group began selling data allegedly stolen from Novartis on their Tor…
Pegasus Airlines data breach exposes 6.5TB of flight and crew data
Pegasus Airlines, a Turkish low-cost carrier, has accidentally leaked around 6.5TB of personal information of flight crew, flight data, and source code after misconfiguring an AWS bucket. Read more at Teiss.
Are victims of Netgain ransomware incident first being notified now?
Accounting firm Perkins & Co. in Portland Oregon has submitted a notification to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office about a breach that goes back to 2020 — the Netgain ransomware incident that impacted numerous clients and individuals. According to Perkins’ notification, Netgain first notified them of the breach in December 2020. So why did it…
Today’s exercise in reading between the lines
A recent notification by Aon had DataBreaches wondering exactly what went on with their incident response. Consider their description of what happened: What Happened? On February 25, 2022, Aon identified a cyber incident that, upon investigation, impacted a limited number of systems. Once the incident was discovered, Aon immediately retained leading cybersecurity firms to assist…