Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ngo was recently deported back to his home country after serving more than seven years in prison for running multiple identity theft services. But the Secret Service discovered his various accounts at these data brokers and had them shut down one by one. By this time, his ID theft services had earned roughly USD $3 million.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2024

WebTPA, a third-party administrator that provides healthcare management and administrative services, disclosed a data breach. WebTPA is a third-party administrator that provides healthcare management and administrative services. WebTPA is offering individuals two years of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2024

UnitedHealth Group has given an update on the February cyberattack on Change Healthcare , one of its subsidiaries. On Wednesday February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare experienced serious system outages due to the cyberattack. Set up identity monitoring. Check the vendor’s advice. Take your time.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

Department of Justice announced that Swiss hacker Till Kottmann, 21, has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 5, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has stepped in to ensure patients are made aware if their sensitive data was compromised during February's massive cyberattack on health IT firm Change Healthcare. The unprecedented directive stems from Change Healthcare's business acquisition by UnitedHealth in 2022.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This drives public awareness of the risks associated with identity theft. As a result, many people rush to protect themselves by subscribing to services that offer credit monitoring, identity theft protection, and fraud alerts. Governments can create a digital identity at birth to replace SSN in its current use.

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Google Security

JANUARY 23, 2025

Posted by Jianing Sandra Guo, Product Manager, Android, Nataliya Stanetsky, Staff Program Manager, Android Today, people around the world rely on their mobile devices to help them stay connected with friends and family, manage finances, keep track of healthcare information and more all from their fingertips.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. Healthcare attacks: big business for fraudsters.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Healthcare company Norton says a May breach led to the theft of data of around 2.5 Some people also had their financial account numbers, driver licenses or other government ID numbers, and digital signatures also taken. Set up identity monitoring. million of its patients, as well as employees and their dependents.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

The healthcare sector continues to be a high priority target for malicious threat actors, as it has been throughout the pandemic. Broward Health, a large healthcare system in South Florida, disclosed a data breach that impacts more than 1.3 million of its patients. million of its patients.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2024

On September 13, 2023, the healthcare organization disclosed a data breach and in December 2023, it announced that the incident impacted 252,890 individuals. SRHS is offering impacted individuals access to credit monitoring services provided by IDX identity theft protection for twelve months at no cost.

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Importance of Family Identity Theft Protection IdentityIQ In today’s interconnected world, your family’s digital footprint grows every time you click, post, or shop online. million American children were victims of identity fraud last year? million American children were victims of identity fraud last year?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2022

SuperCare Health, a California based healthcare firm that deals with patients suffering from respiratory ailments, has posted a data breach notice on its website. Currently, there is no evidence that the stolen details were used/being used in any of the identity theft campaigns.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

Healthcare technology company HealthEC disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.5 Healthcare technology company HealthEC (HEC) disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5 HealthEC is a healthcare technology company that provides solutions for care coordination, population health management, and value-based care.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The healthcare provider promptly secured its infrastructure with the help of a specialized third-party cybersecurity firm. The healthcare provider also conducted an investigation to determine the scope of the intrusion. You can generally report suspected incidents of identity theft to local law enforcement or to the Attorney General.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Cyberattacks are rapidly overwhelming the healthcare sector. Both large and small healthcare providers continue to be a tantalizing target for repeated ransomware attacks due to limited security budgets that lead to an overall weakened cyber defense system. By Tom Neclerio , Vice President of Professional Services at SilverSky.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2024

The healthcare industry has had a rough time when it comes to cybersecurity. Over the last few years, the number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has gradually increased. Clearly, there’s still a lot of work to be done to improve cybersecurity measures in healthcare.

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Joseph Steinberg

APRIL 20, 2021

It is also not uncommon for firms in the healthcare vertical to symbiotically share various types of information with one another; private healthcare-related data is also almost always shared during the M&A process – even before deals have closed.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2024

This breach ranks among the largest ever reported for a healthcare provider or health plan in the U.S. million affected individuals to inform them of the data breach and provide guidance on steps they can take to protect themselves against potential fraud or identity theft. in terms of the number of people impacted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2023

Exposed details include user names, email address, screen names, number of followers and date of account creation along with the linked phone number. NOTE- Twitter suffered a similar info breach in 2018 because of a password bug leaking info about around 330m user accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2024

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: PikaBot malware on the rise: What organizations need to know Malicious meeting invite fix targets Mac users Pig butchering scams, how they work and how to avoid them Airbnb scam sends you to a fake Tripadvisor site, takes your money Facebook bug could have allowed attacker to take over accounts Stopping a targeted attack (..)

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SC Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

Healthcare has become one of the areas where we feel this friction the most. Despite the heightened privacy and security concerns of healthcare, there are enormous opportunities to better integrate our unique digital identities into the healthcare process and reduce many of these concerns.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 25, 2023

Before You Begin Filing: Protect Yourself from Tax-Related Identity Theft and Scams As digital technologies evolve, we often turn to tax software and other platforms to make our lives easier when filing our taxes. A report from Fornuly found that about 33% of people in the United States have experienced some form of identity theft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

LockBit breached the Community Healthcare Clinic of Maui as they are still rebuilding from the devastating fire last year. The clinic operates with a mission to deliver culturally sensitive healthcare, emphasizing education, prevention, and advocacy regardless of patients’ ability to pay.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

EmCare disclosed that a number of employees’ email accounts had been hacked, potentially exposing personal information of patients and employees. EmCare disclosed that a number of employees’ email accounts had been hacked, potentially exposing personal information of patients and employees. “ EmCare , Inc.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

Located in Broward County, Florida, Broward Health currently operates more than 30 healthcare facilities. The healthcare system discovered the security breach on October 19, and reported the incident to local authorities, it also hired a third-party cybersecurity expert to help with the investigations. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Clair to manage their hospital IT, supply chain, and accounts payable needs. The five affected hospitals, Bluewater Health, Chatham Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Windsor Regional Hospital, have had to reschedule appointments with their patients due to the attack.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Canadian healthcare organization Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) has disclosed a data breach affecting client data. As we have mentioned before , identity theft is a serious problem, especially when it affects children.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Industries from healthcare and education to construction and even sports have begun experimenting with AI and VR in siloed functions, with products ranging from immersive learning material to cutting-edge home renovation tools and play-at-home golf simulation systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

authorities on six counts of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiracy. Victims of the group operated in several sectors, including in the healthcare, financial, legal, film, and others. .” The man was charged by U.S. reads the indictment. reads the indictment. “b.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The radiology specialist and its vendor Alliance HealthCare are being sued by patients impacted by its nine-month, PACS-related health care data breach. HHS previously detailed the severe risk posed by stolen ePHI, such as medical identity theft, the weaponization of medical data, financial fraud, and other cybercrimes.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Data breaches reached an all-time high, leaving a trail of identity theft cases. This has left victims scrambling to understand the extent of the damage and how to help protect themselves against the evolving threat of identity theft. Protecting yourself from the damages of data breaches and identity theft is paramount.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The City of Brotherly Love discovered an incident on May 24 after noting suspicious activity on city email accounts; but the City just reported the breach days ago. Also, on August 22, 2023, we became aware that the at-issue email accounts include email accounts that may contain protected health information."

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2023

Maternal & Family Health Services (MFHS), a nonprofit healthcare giant based in Pennsylvania, said in an advisory and press release that it has suffered a ransomware attack which led to the potential exposure of sensitive data of patients, employees, and vendors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2019

authorities on six counts of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiracy. The Dark Overlord is a hacking crew that breached systems of many in the United States and in the United Kingdom, including companies in the entertainment , healthcare, legal and finance. “b. .”

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

The compromised information was highly sensitive and varied by individual, including Social Security numbers, bank account and routing numbers, member identification numbers, taxpayer identification, contact details, and other data. The impacted server also contained the data of health care providers and plan producers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The hackers were employed in a coordinated campaign of identity theft and hacking on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The three hackers used fake online profiles and email accounts to impersonate US citizens working in the satellite and aerospace fields.

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