After his victim allegedly didn’t respond to his repeated demands for a “security fee,” a hacker accuses the victim of covering up a hack for almost two years. One of the breaches added to HHS’s public breach tool this past week is a breach reported by Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center in Michigan. The…
Category: Breach Incidents
Aflac says agent emails were hacked, exposing personal information of clients
WXYZ reports that American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac) has issued a press release concerning the breach of independent contractor sales agents’ email accounts. The breach has reportedly affected some clients’ personal information. WXYZ reports: Clients’ personal information such as names, addresses, dates of birth, policy numbers, social security numbers and bank account information…
Humana notifies members after it detects suspicious behavior in its interactive voice response system
Here’s something we don’t see everyday, and it involves Kentucky-based health insurer Humana. Humana’s technology team became suspicious after there were a number of calls to an 800 number of Humana’s that involved their Interactive Voice Response system where the caller was able to authenticate as a member by providing date of birth, zip code, and…
Insurance startup leaks sensitive customer health data
Zack Whittaker reports: A software startup that provides independent insurance brokers with customer management software has exposed highly sensitive information on thousands of insurance policy holders. A vast cache of data was stored on Amazon S3 storage bucket by AgentRun, a Chicago, Ill.-based company founded in 2012 by Andrew Lech, a former independent insurance broker….
MN: Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology disclose ransomware incident
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology in Minnesota have notified 6,546 patients and HHS of a ransomware incident that occurred in March. Some time overnight between March 30 and March 31st, the practice’s files were locked up with TripleM ransomware. The ransomware not only locked up the data files, but according to their notification and FAQ…
Bombas notifies consumers of breach going back to 2013
Bombas is sending out a breach notification to consumers. It says, in part: What Happened? We first started selling Bombas socks online using an outside vendor to develop and manage our website and a third party e-commerce platform for purchases. Malware in the code of the e-commerce platform was identified and initially removed from our…