Hacktivism is still a thing, although we may not see as much of it here in the U.S. these days. The headlines about hundreds of German politicians having their details dumped may have garnered more attention here, but there have been other ongoing campaigns that have tended to be ignored by U.S. media. One such…
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Marriott says less than 383 million guests impacted by breach, not 500 million
Catalin Cimpanu reports that Marriott has updated its assessment of the impact of a massive data breach disclosed in November. On a positive note, fewer people were affected than the 500 million originally estimated: “Marriott has identified approximately 383 million records as the upper limit for the total number of guest records that were involved…
Humana notifies members of business associate breach at Bankers Life
Humana‘s name has been popping up too much in my breach news searches recently. I noted two incidents in December involving Humana (one theft report and one hack involving Family Physicians Group (now Humana). Now I’ve spotted a third incident report, although this one is a breach involving a business associate. According to a notification…
Exclusive: National Life Group denies claim by thedarkoverlord that they were hacked; independent insurance agency appears to be the actual victim
Hackers claimed to have hacked hundreds of thousands of records from National Life Group, but investigation points to Sterling National Financial Group as the likely hacked entity The blackhat hacker/extortionist(s) known as thedarkoverlord (TDO) ended 2018 and welcomed 2019 with a number of bold announcements about large hacks. One of those announcements was their claim in a since-removed paste that…
‘Town of Salem’ game suffers data breach exposing 7.6 million user details
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has stolen the personal details of 7.6 million users of browser-based game the “Town of Salem,” BlankMediaGames (BMG) admitted yesterday in a blog post. The hack came to light after a mysterious person sent a copy of the stolen data to DeHashed, a commercial data breach indexing service.DeHashed says it…
AU: Data breach sees Victorian Government employees’ details stolen
ABC News reports: The work details of 30,000 Victorian public servants have been stolen in a data breach, after part of the Victorian Government directory was downloaded by an unknown party. Key points:Government referred the data breach to police for investigationCyber security expert says hack could be used for more targeted attackGovernment employees told their…