Jeremiah Fowler discovered yet another unsecured database. This one reportedly had more than one million financial records: The PDF documents that were made public included invoices from both individuals and businesses who used an app to pay for products and services. The invoices contained names, email addresses and physical addresses, phone numbers, and more. In…
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Looks like Karakurt is back… (Update 1)
And they have added two medical entities to their leak site today — Medicalodges in Kansas and Petaluma Health Center in California. They provide no proof for either claim, and neither entity has any notice on their respective sites about any incident, so for now, these are unconfirmed claims. Update 1: DataBreaches received a statement…
Culbertson Memorial critical systems fully restored after cyber attack
Twelve days after a cyberattack, Culbertson Memorial Hospital reports that its critical systems are back online. The hospital has not revealed more details about the type of attack, and reports that it does not yet know whether patient data was compromised.
Battle could be brewing over new FCC data breach reporting rules
Cynthia Brumfield reports: On January 6, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to update its data breach reporting rules for telecommunications carriers. “The law requires carriers to protect sensitive consumer information but, given the increase in frequency, sophistication, and scale of data leaks, we must update our rules to…
NCB Management breach affected almost 500,000 former Bank of America credit card holders
NCB Management is an “accounts receivable management company.” In this case, that means collections. According to NCB’s March 24 letter, NCB discovered on February 4 that an unauthorized party gained access to their systems on February 1, 2023. They confirmed on March 8 that some information on consumers’ Bank of America past-due credit card accounts…
KFC & Pizza Hut Discloses Data Breach – Users Personal Information Stolen
Guru reports: Yum! Brands, Inc., which runs the restaurants KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, submitted a notice of security breach to warn of a cybersecurity incident affecting individuals’ personal information that happened in mid-January 2023. Although some data had been taken from the company’s network, the company had previously claimed…