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Mobile provider MTN says cyberattack compromised customer data
African mobile giant MTN Group announced that a cybersecurity incident has compromised the personal information of some of its subscribers in certain countries. MTN Group (formerly M-Cell) is Africa’s largest mobile network operator, with a strong Asian market presence. The company has nearly 300 million subscribers across 20 countries and an annual revenue surpassing $11 billion. The telecom giant noted…
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A Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health Compromised 5.5 Million Patients’ Information
Credit: Alexander Farnsworth / iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Data breaches targeting healthcare and compromising patient information seem to be coming fast and furious, the latest of which occurred at Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS), a massive nonprofit healthcare network in Connecticut. Hackers stole the data of more than 5.5 million individuals during an attack in…
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Urban One notifies hundreds of data breach that compromised SSNs, tax and financial info
US media conglomerate Urban One this week confirmed it notified hundreds of people about a February 2025 data breach that compromised names, Social Security numbers, direct deposit info, W-2 information, and home addresses. Ransomware gang Cactus claimed responsibility for the breach on March 12, 2025, saying it stole 2.5 TB of data from Urban One. To prove its claim, Cactus…
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Alabama eye doctor notifies 131K people of data breach that compromised SSNs and medical info
Alabama Ophthalmology Associates this week confirmed it notified 131,576 people about a January 2025 data breach that compromised the following personal info: Names Social Security numbers Health insurance info Treatment info Medical record number Medical history info Dates of birth Ransomware gang BianLian claimed responsibility for the attack. The group says it stole finance and HR data, patient records, biometric…
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Hertz notifies 1 million people of data breach that compromised credit cards, SSNs and more
Car rental company Hertz over the weekend confirmed it notified 1,000,175 people of a late-2024 data breach that compromised the following personal information: Names Contact info Payment card info Driver’s license info Info related to workers’ compensation claims Dates of birth Hertz says the breach also exposed a small number of peoples’ Social Security numbers, government ID numbers, passport info,…
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Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor
Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised devices. This exposure is being reported by threat monitoring platform The Shadowserver Foundation, which initially reported 14,000 devices were exposed. Today, Shadowserver’s Piotr Kijewski told BleepingComputer that the cybersecurity organization now detects 16,620 devices impacted…
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Lee University notifies 137K people of data breach that compromised SSNs, credit cards, and medical info
Lee University in Tennessee this week confirmed it notified 136,928 people of a March 2024 data breach that compromised the following personal info: Names Social Security numbers Government-issued ID numbers (e.g. driver’s license, passport) Financial info including credit and debit card numbers Medical info Lee University first announced it suffered a “security incident” on March 22, 2024. Ransomware gang Medusa…
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Warning issued over ‘fast flux’ techniques used to obscure malicious signals on compromised networks
Organizations are at risk of falling prey to a common network vulnerability that allows threat actors to evade detection and spread malware with impunity, law enforcement agencies have warned. ‘Fast flux’ is a domain-based technique used to hide communications sent by malware to its command and control (C2) infrastructure – the malicious servers that send out updates and new directions…
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Have I Been Pwned owner Troy Hunt’s mailing list compromised in phishing attack
Troy Hunt, the security blogger behind data breach site Have I Been Pwned, has fallen victim to a phishing attack targeting his email subscriber list. In a blog post disclosing the incident, Hunt described how the attack took place, with screen shots of the phishing email, which purported to come from his email marketing provider, Mailchimp. The trap used a…
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Western Alliance Bank notifies 22K people of data breach that compromised SSNs
Western Alliance Bank over the weekend confirmed it notified 21,899 people about an October 2024 data breach that compromised the following info: Names Social Security numbers Dates of birth Financial account numbers Driver’s license numbers Tax ID numbers Passport Ransomware gang Clop claimed responsibility for the breach. This is one of several recent breaches claimed by Clop related to its…
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