Bill Toulas reports: Healthcare SaaS provider Welltok is warning that a data breach exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. after a file transfer program used by the company was hacked in a data theft attack. Bill’s article has some good information in it, and you can read more at…
Category: U.S.
Kansas court officials confirm details of ‘evil, criminal’ international cyberattack
Tim Carpenter reports: Foreign cybercriminals launched the attack on the Kansas judicial branch’s information system in October and stole records of appellate cases and judicial administration files potentially regarded as confidential under state law, officials said Tuesday. Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court issued a joint statement confirming perpetrators “stole data and threatened to post…
Data breach at Idaho National Laboratory claimed by SiegedSec
SC Magazine reports: Idaho National Laboratory had its Oracle Human Capital Management servers for its human resources apps compromised by the SiegedSec hacking operation, which claimed to have accessed “hundreds of thousands of user, employee, and citizen data,” CyberScoop reports. SiegedSec has already leaked a sample of the stolen information, which included Social Security numbers,…
Has private financial information been exposed in the cyberattack on CCSD?
Kim Passoth reports: Has private financial information been exposed in the cyberattack on the Clark County School District? That is the big question teachers and parents still want an answer to. Some report since hackers breached CCSD network, there have been attempts to withdraw money from their accounts and some say they have had money…
Illuminate Education Defeats Data Breach Lawsuit for Second Time
Christopher Brown reports: Illuminate Education Inc. defeated for the second time a proposed class action alleging it failed to protect the personal information of more than 3 million elementary and high school students, which was exposed in a December 2021 data breach. The plaintiffs failed to show that they had suffered concrete harm from the breach…
FCC adopts new rules to protect consumers from SIM-swapping attacks
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed new rules to shield consumers from criminals who hijack their phone numbers in SIM swapping attacks and port-out fraud. FCC’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force introduced the new regulations in July. They are geared toward thwarting scammers who seek to access personal data and information…