Aman Shukla reports: Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Ltd has recently informed exchanges that the company received an email from an anonymous sender claiming a potential customer data breach. The company is actively investigating the matter and implementing preventive measures to mitigate risks. … In the exchange filing, the company shared, “We have received communication(s)…
Category: Non-U.S.
Hackers Claim Data Breach at Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court
Novinite reports: The Ransomhouse hacker group has claimed responsibility for stealing data from the Supreme Administrative Court’s information systems. The group published documents, including lists of employee names, personal data, and leave applications, as evidence of the breach, according to cybersecurity website Questona. Along with the leaked documents, the hackers addressed the court’s management with a message urging them to make contact….
Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider
Iain Thomson reports: HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak what’s claimed to be stolen internal records unless a substantial ransom is paid. Previously known as Virgin Care and now owned by Twenty20 Capital, HCRG runs child and…
Major IVF provider Genea suffers ‘cyber incident’
ACS Information Age reports: Major Australian in vitro fertilisation (IVF) provider Genea is working to reassure distressed patients after confirming that an “unauthorised third party” has accessed its data in a breach whose scope is still becoming clear. A nationwide provider of IVF services that is among Australia’s largest, the firm said in an update that it had detected…
Hundreds of Dutch medical records bought for pocket change at flea market
It’s been a while since DataBreaches posted a story about unerased drives with tons of sensitive information being purchased at a flea market or auction, but here we are again, and this time in the Netherlands. Connor Jones reports: Robert Polet, a 62-year-old techie and apparent bargain hunter from Breda, a city in the southern…
Dutch Police seizes 127 XHost servers, dismantles bulletproof hoster
Bill Toulas reports: The Dutch Police (Politie) dismantled the ZServers/XHost bulletproof hosting operation after taking offline 127 servers used by the illegal platform. Earlier this week, the authorities in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, announced sanctions against the same bulletproof hosting provider for its involvement in cybercrime operations. Specifically, the operators of Zservers were accused of…