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UnitedHealth reveals 190 million US citizens were impacted by the Change Healthcare breach
UnitedHealth has confirmed that the total number of customers impacted by last year’s Change Healthcare breach is far higher than previously thought. 190 million US citizens are now expected to have been impacted by the attack, equivalent to well over half of the US population. Previous estimates suggested that the total victims represented a third of the population. “The vast…
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UnitedHealth now says 190 million impacted by 2024 data breach
UnitedHealth has revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, nearly doubling the previously disclosed figure. In October, UnitedHealth reported to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights that the attack affected 100 million people. However, as first reported by TechCrunch, UnitedHealth confirmed on Friday that…
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Nearly all of the top US banks were impacted by third party breaches last year
Virtually all of the top 100 US banks were hit by third party data breaches last year, including every one of the top ten. Research from SecurityScorecard found 97% of firms reported third-party breaches across the year, although only 6% of vendors were compromised. A similar number also suffered fourth-party breaches, traced back to just 2% of vendors. Ryan Sherstobitoff,…
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Intel, AMD CPUs on Linux impacted by newly disclosed Spectre bypass
The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD’s older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations. The vulnerabilities impact Intel’s 12th, 13th, and 14th chip generations for consumers and the 5th and 6th generation of Xeon processors for servers, along with AMD’s Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2 processors.…
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