In a major privacy breach, private data including private messages of millions of Discord users are being sold on a clear web website. The website, Spy.pet, is an internet-scraping company, that has been collecting data from Discord since November 2023. So far, as seen by Hackread.com, it has sold four billion public Discord messages which […]
Breach Notification , Healthcare , HIPAA/HITECH HHS OCR Says the Company Has Not Yet Filed HIPAA Breach Reports to the Agency Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • April 22, 2024 Image: Getty The Department of Health and Human Services has not yet received HIPAA breach reports from Change Healthcare or parent company UnitedHealth Group […]
Threat actors are continuing to successfully breach across the entire attack surface and the stakes are only getting higher: 93% of enterprises who admitted a breach reported unplanned downtime, data exposure, or financial loss as a result, according to Pentera. Pentera surveyed 450 CISOs, CIOs, and IT security leaders at enterprise companies with more than […]
Apr 16, 2024NewsroomPrivacy Breach / Regulatory Compliance The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered the mental telehealth company Cerebral from using or disclosing personal data for advertising purposes. It has also been fined more than $7 million over charges that it revealed users’ sensitive personal health information and other data to third parties for […]
Apr 03, 2024NewsroomData Breach / Incident Response The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year. The findings, released by the Department of Homeland […]
Mar 25, 2024The Hacker NewsData Breach / Password Security In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they’d been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium). The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn’t a highly technical hack that exploited […]
The breach resulted in the theft of various sensitive information, including government identification like Medicare cards, driving licenses, passports, and tax file numbers.
The company initially took some systems offline to contain the breach. Although the nature of the incident was not immediately disclosed, LockBit ransomware claimed responsibility for the attack.
Financial services firm Paysign said it is investigating reports of a data breach involving consumer information after hackers tried to sell a database allegedly belonging to the company containing millions of records. “We are aware of the recent reports of an alleged data breach of Paysign consumer information. We are investigating the claim,” the company […]