The personal data of thousands of UK military personnel was compromised in a severe data breach targeting the Ministry of Defence, sparking widespread concern. The breach occurred in a third-party payroll system managed by SSCL — a contractor tasked with handling sensitive government department
Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, revealed how hackers penetrated Change Healthcare by using stolen credentials and taking advantage of a lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) in a troubling testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Large volumes of private health
Kaiser Permanente, a leading US healthcare provider, is notifying 13.4 million individuals that their data has been breached. The breach involved the accidental sharing of sensitive information with third-party advertisers. Revealed in a statement shared with TechCrunch, Kaiser Permanente mentioned
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) has reported a significant data breach. The breach occurred in February due to a successful phishing attack that compromised roughly two dozen employees’ email accounts, which then led to the exposure of sensitive personal and health
UnitedHealth Group has acknowledged that a recent ransomware attack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare led to a massive data breach, affecting a "substantial proportion of people in America." The breach, one of the most significant in American healthcare history, resulted in the theft of sensitive
Cherry Health, a Michigan-based healthcare provider, revealed that a ransomware attack was responsible for a previously disclosed data breach. The breach compromised the personal and financial information of 184,372 victims, mostly from Michigan. The incident itself took place on December 21,
Cisco Duo recently announced the theft of SMS MFA logs for its service, which resulted from a breach affecting a third-party telephony provider. This incident, occurring on April 1, 2024, led to unauthorized access to sensitive customer data, including phone numbers, carriers, and metadata.
Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 700k documents belonging to Australia’s largest smoke alarm installation and service provider. The exposed database contained 762,856 documents and totaled
Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA), a Boston consulting firm, experienced a data breach that exposed the Medicare information of 341,650 individuals. Originally detected on May 30, 2023, the breach resulted from a sophisticated cyberattack targeting sensitive data. Notifications regarding
Change Healthcare, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group, is once again grappling with a ransomware threat. This development follows a recent incident where UnitedHealth Group allegedly shelled out $22 million to the Alphv/BlackCat gang to resolve a previous ransomware attack, as detailed in an