I haven’t seen any mention of this in news or on their web site, but Career Group Inc. suffered a ransomware attack recently and is notifying those impacted. In a copy of the notification submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, they report that on July 2, Career Group Companies detected potential unauthorized access to…
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Wawa paying $9-million in cash, gift cards in data breach settlement; Nov. deadline to file claim
WPVI reports an update to the 2019 WaWa breach covered on this site in a number of posts: Wawa is paying out up to $9-million in cash and gift cards related to a data breach that exposed customers’ credit and debit card numbers and names. The breach happened between March 4, 2019 and December 12, 2019….
Beaumont Health notifies patients of Accellion breach
Friday, August 27, 2021 On February 5, 2021, Goodwin Procter LLP (“Goodwin”) notified Beaumont Health (“Beaumont”) of a security incident at Accellion, a third-party vendor whose File Transfer software was used by Goodwin for large file transfers on behalf of clients, including Beaumont. Goodwin received some personal and protected health information from Beaumont in connection…
Bangkok Air confirms passenger PII leak after ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Bangkok Airways, the second oldest and the third biggest airline company in Thailand, has admitted last week that hackers stole passenger information during a security breach following a ransomware attack. The airline confirmed the breach in a press release last Thursday, a day after a ransomware gang known as LockBit posted a message…
Less than two months after its launch and inaugural hack, GETTR is leaking data
GETTR, a social media platform similar to Twitter but frequented by people who don’t feel welcome on Twitter, officially launched on July 4th, 2021. It may be hard to remember what came first — the official launch of the platform run by former President Trump’s ex-spokesman Jason Miller or its first data breach, which was…
Ex-employee, staff booked for data theft from Ghaziabad firm
The Times of India reports: GHAZIABAD: Two people have been booked by Ghaziabad police for allegedly stealing data from a cosmetics company. The accused have also demanded Rs 1 crore from the owner of the company in return of the data. The accused have been identified as Gaurav Kumar and Sun ii Kumar. Manoj Garg,…