Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Non-profit health insurer Point32Health suffered a ransomware attack and has taken systems offline in response to the incident. Non-profit health insurer Point32Health has taken systems offline in response to a ransomware attack that took place on April 17. ” reads the statement published by the insurer.

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Insurance Ransomware Education Accountability 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The authorities launched an investigation after the ransomware gang Ransomhub claimed the attack and published samples of personal information from a database of government. Stolen files allegedly include contracts, insurance, and financial documents. ” reported the Associated Press.

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Government Hacking Ransomware Insurance 144

Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

This misconfigured Salesforce Community site from the state of Vermont was leaking pandemic assistance loan application data, including names, SSNs, email address and bank account information. That data later wound up for sale on a top cybercrime forum. Huntington Bank has disabled the leaky TCF Bank Salesforce website. ”

Banking 341

Banking Government Information Security Authentication 341

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

. “While ConnectOnCall is not aware of any misuse of personal information or harm to patients as a result of this incident, potentially impacted individuals are encouraged to remain vigilant and report any suspected identity theft or fraud to your health plan or insurer, or financial institution.”

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Data breaches Identity Theft Healthcare Insurance 107

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recently emerged HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost. For those who have cyber insurance against ransomware attacks. That way you would have avoided a leak and decrypted your information. Very important! reads the ransom note.

Insurance 98

Insurance Ransomware Cyber Insurance Malware 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Great Plains Regional Medical Center announced that it had quickly restored its systems and returned to normal operations, however, it was not able to ever a limited amount of patient information.

Ransomware 124

Ransomware Insurance Encryption Healthcare 124

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In December 2023, Elliptic and Corvus Insurance published a joint research that revealed the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. reads the CSA. According to the experts, the ransomware gang has infected over 329 victims, including ABB , Capita , Dish Network , and Rheinmetall.

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Ransomware Telecommunications Healthcare Insurance 125

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2024

.” The data breach at Omni Family Health may have exposed varying personal information for current and former patients, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, health insurance details, and medical information.

Data breaches 139

Data breaches Healthcare Insurance Engineering 139

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2025

Threat actors potentially accessed and/or acquired some of customers’ information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account numbers and health insurance information. At this time, it is unclear if the exposed information includes any donor data.

Data breaches 108

Data breaches Banking Insurance Hacking 108

Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

March is a time for leprechauns and four-leaf clovers, and as luck would have it, its also a time to learn how to protect your private data from cybercrime. During this time, many government agencies and consumer protection organizations come together to help educate consumers on how to keep their personal and financial information secure.

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Consumer Protection Identity Theft Scams Social Engineering 84

Andrew Hay

JULY 26, 2018

Though the breaches are concerning, the real story is that the financial institution suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. This, unfortunately, is the nature of insurance. Cyber security insurance cannot and should not, however, be viewed as your primary means of defending against an attack.

Insurance 45

Insurance Computers and Electronics Banking Cybercrime 45

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2025

Additionally, we implemented enhanced security measures to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.”

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Data breaches Insurance Healthcare Banking 71

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have become one of the most prevalent and expensive forms of cybercrime. In some cases, attackers are even leveraging the threat of regulatory actions or causing cyber insurance policies to be rendered moot by reporting lapses in security on the part of the victim to regulators and insurers.

Ransomware 141

Ransomware Cryptocurrency Insurance Cybercrime 141

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

The university notified appropriate law enforcement entities, and the university’s Information Security Office (ISO) investigated and resolved the incident in consultation with an external firm that specializes in responding to ransomware attacks.” ” reads a press release published by the University.

Ransomware 145

Ransomware Cyber Insurance Insurance Advertising 145

Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2024

According to the notice published by the company, WebTPA acts as an administrative services provider to certain benefit plans and insurance companies whose information was impacted in this incident. “The investigation concluded that the unauthorized actor may have obtained personal information between April 18 and April 23, 2023.”

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Healthcare Insurance Identity Theft 137

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2025

“We discovered unauthorized access to our network that resulted in the unauthorized access to, or acquisition of, certain files by an unauthorized actor.

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Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Healthcare 75

Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

In December 2023, Elliptic and Corvus Insurance published a joint research that revealed the group accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime) ” reads the CSA.

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Ransomware Hacking Healthcare Retail 142

Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2025

.” CHC pointed out that threat actors did not delete or encrypt patients’ information. The exposed data may include patient name, birth date, contact info, diagnoses, treatments, test results, Social Security number, and health insurance details. The compromised data varies for each individual.

Data breaches 62

Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Insurance 62

Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company specializing in the investigation and prevention of high-tech cybercrime, has published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. . Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing.

Scams 130

Scams Banking Retail Insurance 130

Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

Burkov was also operating another invite-only cybercrime forum, to obtain membership prospective members needed three existing members to “vouch” for their good reputation in the cybercrime community. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance.

Marketing 116

Marketing Cybercrime Advertising Insurance 116

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Exposed data Includes names, addresses, social insurance numbers, gender, marital status, date of birth, and rates of pay. The attackers also stole a “limited set” data from Erie Shoes HealthCare including 352 current and past employee social insurance numbers (SIN).

Ransomware 137

Ransomware Healthcare VPN Insurance 137

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 million customers. million customers.

Ransomware 98

Ransomware Insurance Data breaches Cybercrime 98

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2021

. “Judging by the composition of the data, the new database of car owners is not an unloading from the traffic police system, but rather an unloading from the databases of insurers, the founder of the DLBI data leak intelligence and darknet monitoring service Ashot Hovhannisyan believes.” ” continues the post.

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Insurance Hacking Cybercrime Media 112

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Each of these regulations addresses different aspects of cybersecurity and data protection, making it essential for businesses and organizations to stay informed and proactive. The act also requires institutions to allow customers to opt out of having their information shared with non-affiliated third parties.

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Cybersecurity Computers and Electronics Cyber threats Healthcare 122

Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2024

The insurance company Prudential Financial confirmed that the data breach it suffered in February 2024 affected over 2.5 Prudential Financial confirmed that more than 2.5 million individuals were affected by the data breach it suffered in February 2024. million individuals.

Data breaches 140

Data breaches Insurance Cyber Attacks Ransomware 140

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

France Travail data breach impacted 43 Million people Scranton School District in Pennsylvania suffered a ransomware attack Lazarus APT group returned to Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds Moldovan citizen sentenced in connection with the E-Root cybercrime marketplace case UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland Cisco (..)

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Computers and Electronics Cybercrime Ransomware 130

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

Compromised data exposed personal and Medicare information of the individuals, including name, date of birth, address, Medicare Health Insurance Claim Number (which contains a Social Security number associated with a member) and some medical information and/or health insurance information.

Data breaches 138

Data breaches Identity Theft Insurance Hacking 138

Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2024

The company sells new and used boats and yachts, offers marine-related services such as financing, insurance, and maintenance, and provides yacht charters and brokerage services. The Company has determined that a cybercrime organization accessed a limited portion of our information environment associated with our retail business.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Retail Cyber Attacks Ransomware 130

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Artificial Intelligence 123

Artificial Intelligence Data breaches Scams Insurance 123

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

.” The type of information exposed in the attack varied for each individual, it may have included names, addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, limited treatment information, health insurance information and Social Security numbers and/or drivers license numbers.

Data breaches 74

Data breaches Identity Theft Healthcare Insurance 74

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

FIN7 using this technique to target businesses in the transportation and insurance industries since August 2021, while it started targeting defense firms since November 2021. In some of the attacks investigated by the FBI, the cybercrime group obtained administrative access and moved laterally within the target network.

Insurance 104

Insurance Malware Cybercrime Ransomware 104

Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

Burkov was also operating another invite-only cybercrime forum, to obtain membership prospective members needed three existing members to “vouch” for their good reputation in the cybercrime community. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance.

Identity Theft 96

Identity Theft Cybercrime Advertising Insurance 96

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Daniel McKee stated the state had prepared for this and is informing impacted individuals. RIBridges supports state programs like Medicaid, SNAP, Rhode Island Works, childcare assistance, long-term care, and HealthSource RI insurance. Rhode Island is encouraging residents to safeguard their data after a breach.

Identity Theft 74

Identity Theft Data breaches Insurance Hacking 74

Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

The Pennsylvania State Education Association promptly launched an investigation into the security breach with the help of cybersecurity experts. The company started notifying potentially impacted individuals.

Education 64

Education Data breaches Identity Theft Insurance 64

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

As of February 2025, Medusa developers and affiliates have impacted over 300 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors with affected industries including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing.” ” reads the joint advisory.

Ransomware 69

Ransomware Encryption Cryptocurrency Insurance 69

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

” It seems that $100,000 out of $130,000 are being covered by insurance. Further investigation on the malware allowed the experts from security firms FireEye and CrowdStrike to discover that threat actors behind the Ryuk ransomware are working with another cybercrime gang to gain access to target networks.

Insurance 103

Insurance Ransomware Government Malware 103