Yet another one you probably hadn’t heard about yet. From a substitute notice on their website dated February 2: UT Specialty Dental Services, PLLC a/k/a Aspire Surgical announced today that it is notifying individuals whose information was involved in a recent cybersecurity incident. On December 7, 2022, Aspire Surgical discovered a cybersecurity incident that impacted…
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Bigger than they knew: Diligent Corp. sends more notifications after discovering hacked data on the internet
Diligent Corp is a software as a service company, headquartered in New York. In June, 2022, they disclosed an incident that occurred in May. According to their disclosure at the time, on or around May 21, 2022, an unauthorized actor accessed a network supporting Steele Compliance (a firm acquired by Diligent in February 2021). Diligent…
Four more attacks on the healthcare sector, weekend edition
UPDATE of Feb. 10, 2023: Regal Medical Group notified HHS that their incident impacted 3,300,638 patients. Original Post: It may be the weekend, but there’s no rest for the weary when it comes to tracking attacks on the healthcare sector. Here are four more incidents you may not have heard about already: Cardiovascular Associates Cardiovascular…
Iran crew stole Charlie Hebdo database, says Microsoft
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Microsoft believes the gang who boasted it had stolen and leaked more than 200,000 Charlie Hebdo subscribers’ personal information is none other than a Tehran-backed gang. On Friday, Redmond’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC) attributed the cyber-heist to Iran’s Neptunium, which the US Department of Justice tracks as Emennet Pasargad. The…
TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate confirm data breach affecting 20M customers
Lawrence Abrams reports: PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers. TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate are subscription-based services allowing customers to perform background checks on other people. When conducting background checks,…
Julius ‘zeekill’ Kivimäki, former Lizard Squad hacker, arrested in France
Recidivism is a thing. Alexander Martin reports: Julius Kivimäki, the Finnish member of Lizard Squad — who as a teenager in 2015 was convicted on over 50,000 counts of computer crimes — has been arrested again in France. Finnish police confirmed the arrest on Friday in a press release stating the suspect is being held by…