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Russian spies hacked UK government systems earlier this year, stole data and emails

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Dissent

Alexander Martin reports: Cyber spies working for Russia’s foreign intelligence service stole internal emails and data on individuals from the British government earlier this year, according to an official description of the incident obtained by Recorded Future News. The breach of the Home Office’s systems has not previously been reported. It followed the Russian hackers…

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Six U.S. hospital breach reports from July; some have flown under the media radar (1)

Posted on August 5, 2024October 21, 2024 by Dissent

Although DataBreaches does not report on all incidents involving U.S. healthcare entities, a log is kept to calculate statistics for the annual Breach Barometer report produced by Protenus, Inc. For the month of July, DataBreaches noted the following six U.S. hospitals disclosed breaches or were claimed as victims by threat actors. Some of these incidents…

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Ring, Ring, it’s the FCC Calling- TracFone to Pay $16M to Settle FCC Investigation

Posted on August 2, 2024 by Dissent

Liisa M. Thomas, Tracy Chau, and Kathryn Smith of SheppardMullin write: TracFone, the pre-paid phone company, recently settled with the FCC over allegations that the company failed to protect customer information during three different data incidents. According to the FCC, in each of the incidents, threat actors gained access to customer information, including names, addresses, and features…

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ICO reprimands the Electoral Commission after cyber attack compromises servers

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Dissent

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office issued the following statement today: We have issued a reprimand to the Electoral Commission after hackers gained access to servers that contained the personal information of approximately 40 million people. In August 2021, hackers successfully accessed the Electoral Commission’s Microsoft Exchange Server by impersonating a user account and exploiting known…

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CA: Legal services vendor hacked in April, medical information acquired by hacker

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Dissent

Another legal services vendor discloses a breach: Compex Legal Services Inc. (“Compex”) recently discovered an incident that may have impacted the privacy of information related to certain individuals. Compex provides record retrieval and litigation support services to insurance carriers, third party administrators and law firms. As Compex continues to investigate and work toward notifying impacted…

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Third-party breach resulted in Singapore Moneylenders Credit Bureau being leaked by GhostR (UPDATED)

Posted on July 24, 2024July 25, 2024 by Dissent

Threat actors known as GhostR claim to have stolen more than 50 GB of files on loan borrowers from the Singapore MLCB (the Moneylenders Credit Bureau). They have offered some of the data as a leak on a popular hacking forum and provided proof of claims in the form of copies of completed loan applications:…

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