In March 2023, United Seating and Mobility, LLC, d/b/a Numotion (“Numotion”) paid the government $7 million to resolve allegations that it made false claims in submitting reimbursement requests to Kentucky Medicaid, two of Kentucky Medicaid’s Managed Care Organization contractors (MCOs), MO HealthNet (Missouri Medicaid), and D.C. Medicaid (archived). Numotion is a nationwide provider of durable…
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Data breach involving two former Kalamazoo employees under criminal investigation
Here’s your occasional reminder about insider-wrongdoing breaches. Katie Sergent reports: City officials notified all staff of a data breach impacting about 250 current and former city employees, according to Kalamazoo Communications Manager Michael Smith in a statement to News Channel 3 Wednesday. The breach involved two former city employees, and was discovered on March 28…
Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack
Euractiv and Reuters report: Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country’s leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). “There was a serious cyber attack on the CDU network,” Germany’s Interior Ministry said…
Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers
The Hacker News reports: Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,” the company said in a joint statement along with CrowdStrike and…
Snowflake data breach claims spark war of words over culpability; researchers may have been trolled
Solomon Klappholz reports: Snowflake has pinned the blame on a series of high-profile data breaches in recent days on customers failing to adequately secure production environments by using two-factor authentication. In a statement on 2 June 2024, Snowflake CISO Brad Jones pushed back on claims that major data breaches involving Ticketmaster and Santander were caused by a vulnerability or misconfiguration in Snowflake’s platform. […] Cyber crime intelligence…
Santander customers’ private data put up for sale for $2m by hackers
The Guardian reports: Hackers are attempting to sell confidential information including the bank and credit card numbers of millions of Santander customers to the highest bidder. ShinyHunters posted an advert on a hacker forum for the data, which it says also includes staff HR details, with an asking price of $2m (£1.6m). It is the…