Eric Zimmer reports: Following what it calls “a recent cyber security-attack” involving “unauthorized access” to its computer systems which contained sensitive and personal customer information, LifeLabs has released an open letter to its customers, detailing the incident and outlining steps it said it has taken to prevent these types of situations in the future. The…
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AG Josh Shapiro reaches settlement with Expedia and Orbitz in 2018 data breach
Valeria de Leon reports: Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Friday, he reached a settlement with two online travel reservation companies after they potentially exposed information of thousands of people, including Pennsylvanians. The settlement follows an investigation led by Deputy Attorney General Timothy R. Murphy, into a data breach in 2018 involving Orbitz and its…
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center notifying patients; employee email accounts had been hacked in March
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming has posted a data security incident notice on its website. According to the notice, on or about April 5, 2019, CRMC became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee payroll accounts and launched an investigation. They ultimately determined that some CRMC employee accounts were accessed without authorization between…
Helix IPTV: Hackers Threaten to Expose Resellers & Customers
Andy writes: Popular ‘pirate’ IPTV provider Helix Hosting appears to be facing a crisis after someone claiming to be a hacker posted a message on the service’s homepage. According to the statement, Helix failed to pay a ransom so as a result, the personal details of customers and resellers, plus an owner’s name, address and…
Banner Health agrees to $6 million settlement over 2016 breach
Jessica Kim Cohen reports an update on a 2016 breach covered on this site: Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million to victims of a massive data breach the Arizona health system experienced in 2016, according to court documents filed last week. The plaintiffs in the case filed the motion for preliminary…
It’s not just state actors going after automotive companies: “DarkSly” claims hacks of Hyundai and Jaguar/LandRover
On December 6, Catalin Cimpanu of ZDNet reported that both BMW and Hyundai had reportedly been hacked. His report was based on reporting by Von Hakan Tanriverdi and Josef Streule that had been published on both BR.de and taggeschau.de. Their report was light on details, though, and neither BMW nor Hyundai would comment. to them…