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. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it.

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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 Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach, the security incident exposed the personal information of approximately 1 million individuals. Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of informing approximately one million individuals. NextGen Healthcare, Inc.

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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. How is Broward Health handling the incident?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Category Case Study The healthcare industry is facing an ever-growing cyber threat that has doubled in the last five years. Ransomware attacks are among the most common methods used to target healthcare systems, resulting in millions of people’s personal information being compromised and costing the healthcare systems millions of dollars.

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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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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

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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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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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

A price of $200,000 is being demanded for the stolen information and as it contains sensitive information such as contact details, those interested might make merry as they can use the purchased data to launch identity thefts and phishing campaigns. Hudson Rock did not name the hacking form that contains the twitter data dump.

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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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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations. Businesses, particularly those in financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors, suffer from operational disruptions and financial penalties. It's crucial to recognize that data breaches have enormous impacts on individuals, businesses, and society.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2024

The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) tracked 1,041,312,601 data breach victims in Q2 2024, an increase of 1,170% over Q2 2023 (81,958,874 victims). The ITRC is a national non-profit organization set up with the goal of minimizing the risk and mitigating the impact of identity compromise. Change your password.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. The combination of prominent media-reported mega breaches and less famous identity thefts have promoted the industry to adopt passwordless authentication methods.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Both data privacy and data security play a critical role in helping prevent identity theft, and adopting strong practices in both areas is essential for keeping your personal information safe. IdentityIQ is committed to helping members stay secure.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

University and college databases often store a wide variety of valuable information, everything from loans and bank account information to social security numbers and passport information — even healthcare data. Improve Your Password Security. Do not use the same password for different services. It goes deeper.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Second is the news related to Baton Rouge General Health System (GHS), a healthcare service provider that disclosed yesterday that it was hit by a cyber attack in June this year leaking patient details to hackers. And the affected companies are mostly from IT and software development sector.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2023

” While that is good news from a healthcare perspective, the ransomware operators did obtain something of value. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don't use for anything else. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA).

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2024

AI voice cloning enables stunningly realistic impersonation, posing critical fraud and identity theft risks. In a disturbing incident, scammers used voice cloning to impersonate the CEO of LastPass , a major password management firm.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2022 Consumer Impact Report revealed that social media account takeovers have grown by 1,000% in one year. Healthcare While creating content aimed at public services is different than B2B audiences, cybersecurity information is especially relevant.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Crimeware and spyware.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations. Businesses, particularly those in financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors, suffer from operational disruptions and financial penalties. It's crucial to recognize that data breaches have enormous impacts on individuals, businesses, and society.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite law enforcement efforts, LockBit attacks continue to target important infrastructure such as municipal governments and healthcare providers. Attackers can covertly extract personal information and system data, jeopardizing user privacy and perhaps leading to identity theft or other criminal activity.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 17, 2024

The Future of Identity Verification: From Blockchain to Biometrics IdentityIQ Identity verification is a security tool that can help protect individuals and organizations from digital threats, identity theft, and more by limiting access only to authorized persons. Lack of user control over data.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

The combination of data could readily enable social engineering attacks, fraud, full-fledged identity theft attacks, and other cybercrimes, he warned. There’s a lot of reasoning for keeping these systems as simple as possible: doctors forget passwords, or the processes are too complicated for the network,” he said.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

All patients will receive complimentary identity monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration services. The potential compromised data could include patient names, SSNs, contact details, dates of birth, physical attributes, diagnoses, treatments and appointment confirmations.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In this episode of the podcast (#166): Jay Budzik, the Chief Technology Officer at ZestAI, joins us to talk about that company's push to make artificial intelligence decisions explainable and how his company's technology is helping to root out synthetic identity fraud. Also: making Passwords work. Also: Breaking Bad Security Habits.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By leveraging cryptographic techniques and biometric authentication, passkeys offer a more robust and user-friendly alternative to traditional passwords, addressing many vulnerabilities that have long plagued our online accounts. Passkeys Unpacked Passkeys were designed to eliminate the weaknesses inherent in passwords.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By leveraging cryptographic techniques and biometric authentication, passkeys offer a more robust and user-friendly alternative to traditional passwords, addressing many vulnerabilities that have long plagued our online accounts. Passkeys Unpacked Passkeys were designed to eliminate the weaknesses inherent in passwords.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

Healthcare sees 580% jump in ransomware attacks. Bad actors can then use this information for future medical insurance or identity theft schemes. To install malware, which gives them access to your computer and sensitive information like usernames and passwords. ” Fight Security Fatigue. Social Security number.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In another COVID-themed scheme, the con artists introduced themselves as the Direct Relief charity, which helps to improve the quality of life and healthcare in poorer regions. The scheme likely aimed at identity theft: the illegal use of others’ personal details for deriving profit.

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