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Next Step Healthcare data breach leaks patients’ SSNs, medical records, and credit cards
Next Step Healthcare in Massachusetts over the weekend confirmed it notified thousands of patients of a June 2024 data breach that compromised the following personal info: Social Security numbers Medical records Financial account details Drivers’ licenses Credit and debit card numbers At time of writing, two states have disclosed how many of their residents were compromised in the breach: 10,041…
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Someone Found Over 180 Million User Records in an Unprotected Online Database
If you use the internet, you’ve probably had at least some personal information go missing. It’s just the nature of the web. But this latest discovery, as reported by Wired, is something different. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a public online database housing over 180 million records (184,162,718 to be exact) which amounted to more than 47GB of data. There…
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Criminal records, financial data exposed in cyber attack on Legal Aid Agency
The UK’s Legal Aid Agency has fallen victim to a cyber attack, with the organization confirming a “significant amount of personal data” has been exposed. In a statement confirming the incident, the government revealed it first became aware of the incident on April 23rd. A subsequent investigation showed the attack was “more extensive than originally understood”. The Legal Aid Agency,…
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US healthcare data breaches are out of control – over 400 million patient records have been exposed in the last two years
Two new reports have highlighted the immense scale of US healthcare data breaches, with 409 million personal records exposed over the last two years. According to research from application security firm Indusface, there were 1,200 breaches in the US healthcare sector in the last 24 months, with 83% of incidents leaving patient records exposed. Texas recorded 66 data breaches, the…
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Hackers Stole Health Records From 1.6 Million Planned Parenthood Patients
Another major data breach has compromised the sensitive health records of more than 1.6 million patients—including minors under 18—who received care at Planned Parenthood in more than 30 states. Laboratory Services Cooperative (LSC), which provides lab testing services to reproductive health clinics across the U.S., is notifying individuals who may have been affected by a security incident that took place…
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Verizon Call Filter API flaw could’ve exposed millions of Americans’ call records
A security flaw in Verizon’s Call Filter app could’ve allowed threat actors to access details of incoming calls for another user, a security researcher has found. Discovered by cybersecurity researcher Evan Connelly in February, the API flaw has since been patched by the telecoms giant. However, in a blog post detailing the vulnerability, Connelly warned exploitation of the flaw could…
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Oracle denies breach after hacker claims theft of 6 million data records
Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company’s Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers. “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data,” the company told BleepingComputer.…
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‘It’s your worst nightmare’: A batch of €5 hard drives found at a flea market held 15GB of Dutch medical records – and experts warn it could’ve caused a disastrous data breach
A Dutch IT company has demonstrated exactly how not to handle data protection after a number of hard drives containing sensitive medical data were found for sale at a Belgian flea market. First reported in Dutch broadcaster Omroep Brabant, 62-year-old Robert Polet from Breda found the hard drives on sale for roughly €5 each in a flea market after taking…
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Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Treasury records
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing Treasury Department records containing personal information like Social Security numbers early this morning, reports Inner City Press. The order is in response to a lawsuit filed yesterday in New York’s Southern District Court. The suit alleges that the administration exceeded its authority, broke the US Administrative Procedures Act, and violated…
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Hayward, CA notifies residents of data breach that compromised SSNs, credit cards, and medical records
The city of Hayward, California last week confirmed it notified an undisclosed number of people about a July 2023 data breach that compromised the following info: Social Security numbers Medical records Financial account info Driver’s licenses Credit and debit card numbers The city says it suffered a ransomware attack, but no ransomware group has claimed responsibility as of time of…
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