Lawrence Abrams reports: Student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders’ personal information. guard.me is one of the world’s largest insurance carriers specializing in providing health insurance to students while traveling or studying abroad in another country. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Category: Hack
Crypto exchanges BtcTurk and Pi Network linked to security incidents
CoinTelegraph reports: Major Turkish crypto exchange BtcTurk came forward about a data breach from mid-2018 that leaked sensitive information of over 500,000 users. According to the official announcement, the stolen data set contains BtcTurk users’ names, citizen ID numbers, emails, addresses, birthdates and mobile phone numbers. The stolen data set first appeared on an online…
Ca: After daycare site data theft, Quebec National Library shutting briefly for security upgrade
Selena Ross reports: Quebec’s Bibliotheque Nationale is shutting down, and going partly offline, until next Tuesday because it uses the same technology company that served the daycare booking website that had its data stolen earlier this week. “Following the attack on the government site La Place 0-5 earlier this week, the Government Cyber Defense Center…
De: Hackers attack Ehrmann, demand millions in ransom
Ehrmann SE is a dairy headquartered in Germany. It has production facilitites in Russia and Brazil, as well as sales offices in Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and China. The multinational firm has reportedly been hit by hackers. All we really know so far, as reported yesterday by Jens Noll and Sabrina Karrer,…
Noblr Reciprocal Exchange to notify 97,633 consumers of breach involving insurance quote platform
The following incident sounds almost identical to the incident reported by American Family Insurance, but this report is from Noblr Reciprocal Exchange (Noblr). As with the one from American Family Insurance, if you receive a letter next week from Noblr, read it. A letter signed by Jennifer Lawrence, their Chief Legal Officer, explains, but begins…
American Family Insurance to notify 283,734 of breach linked to unemployment benefits fraud
American Family Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. (American Family) will be sending out letters on or about May 14 to people who may have — or may not have — sought an auto insurance quote from the firm using the firm’s web site. If you get a letter from them, read it carefully. A letter signed…