Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023: A Year of Record-Breaking Data Breaches IdentityIQ This past year has been an eye-opening year in the realm of digital security. Data breaches reached an all-time high, leaving a trail of identity theft cases. Microsoft Cloud Email Breach: A major Microsoft cloud email breach affected U.S.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Cybercrime Social Engineering 66

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data.

Financial Services 108

Financial Services Data breaches Identity Theft Banking 108

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

McLaren Health Care (McLaren) experienced a data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of approximately 2.2 McLaren Health Care (McLaren) disclosed a data breach that occurred between late July and August. The security breach exposed the sensitive personal information of 2,192,515 people.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Insurance Ransomware 104

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories AutoZone discloses a data breach after a MOVEit attack. AutoZone disclosed a data breach resulting from the hack of their MOVEit Transfer installation. million Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America 2.6 million Genworth 2.5

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Data breaches Hacking Retail Identity Theft 106

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 The Government organization disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 Compromised data may include the Social Security number (SSN), date of birth, driver’s license/state identification number, and taxpayer identification number. million “U.S.-based

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Data breaches Insurance Identity Theft Education 105

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. Potentially compromised information includes name, date of birth, address, Social Security number, medical information, and health insurance information.

Identity Theft 91

Identity Theft Ransomware Data breaches Insurance 91

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

PayPal is sending out data breach notifications to thousands of users because their accounts were compromised through credential stuffing attacks. The company added that the unauthorized accessed were the result of credential stuffing attacks and that its systems were not breached. ” said Gal.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Accountability Passwords 88

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Utah-based radiology medical center Utah Imaging Associates discloses a data breach that impacted 583,643 former and current patients. Utah Imaging Associates (UIA) discloses a security breach, on September 4, 2021 the company claims to have detected and blocked a cyber attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 86

Data breaches Identity Theft Healthcare Insurance 86

Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. Image: Linkedin.

Insurance 276

Insurance Banking Identity Theft Scams 276

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. The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Healthcare Insurance 92

Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

said investigators determined the breach began on Aug. KrebsOnSecurity examined posts across dozens of cybercrime forums around that time, and found only one instance of someone selling large volumes of tax data in the year surrounding the breach date. “At the time, it was one of the largest breaches in U.S.

Identity Theft 238

Identity Theft Banking Cybercrime Hacking 238

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S. info and findget[.]me,

Accountability 351

Accountability Identity Theft Hacking Insurance 351

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Broward Health public health system disclosed a massive data breach that has impacted more than 1.3 The Broward Health public health system has suffered a data breach that impacted 1,357,879 individuals. ” reads the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted individuals.

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Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Insurance 81

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Lab test provider LifeLabs has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information for up to 15 million Canadians. LifeLabs notified its customers via letter, exposed data includes names, contact information, health card numbers, and for approximately 85,000 customers their lab test results. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Insurance Advertising 58

Identity IQ

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The risk of identity theft is a concept that most of us are probably familiar with given the rise of cybercrime and data breaches. Yet a new report by Identity Theft Resource Center and DIG. Here’s some insight on why victims of data breaches might fail to react.

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Identity Theft Data breaches Hacking Passwords 97

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches. 1 in 4 Americans reported that they would stop doing business with a company following a data breach, and 67% of consumers reported a loss of trust in an organization following a breach. What Are Data Breaches?

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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 8.9 Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental suffered a data breach that impacted 8,923,662 patients. MCNA Dental is one of the largest US dental care and oral health insurance providers. million individuals.

Ransomware 83

Ransomware Insurance Data breaches Identity Theft 83

Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclose a data breach after MOVEit attack on IBM. The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclosed a data breach that impacted more than four million individuals. ” reads the reads the notice. by the company.

Identity Theft 84

Identity Theft Data breaches Ransomware Education 84

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) disclosed a data breach that affected almost 270,000 patients at its medical centers. The organizations launched an investigation into the incident with the help of forensic experts and discovered that threat actors have stolen files containing sensitive data, including: Full names.

Computers and Electronics 88

Computers and Electronics Ransomware Data breaches Identity Theft 88

Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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Identity Theft Government Mobile Data breaches 233

Malwarebytes

MAY 16, 2023

The Data Breach Notification lists the total number of persons affected as 5,815,591. The incident was noticed on March 14, and a week later PharMerica identified that the personal information accessed included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medication lists and health insurance information.

Identity Theft 85

Identity Theft Ransomware Data breaches Passwords 85

Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. At the time, the ransomware gang fixed the deadline on August 20, 2022 and after the failure of an extortion attempt it published the link to the stolen data. ” concludes Wabtec.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Identity Theft Insurance Data breaches 87

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identity Theft. Data Breach. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Unfortunately, if potential ransomware targets are known to be insured, the attackers assume that they will most probably be paid. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Insider Threat.

Cyber threats 107

Cyber threats Insurance Cyber Insurance Ransomware 107

Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

Scams 130

Scams Identity Theft Phishing Accountability 130

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 5, 2023

The letter says: "We have arranged for you to receive credit monitoring and identity protection services through the company IDX at no cost to you. These identity protection services include one year of credit and CyberScan monitoring, a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy, and fully managed identity theft recovery services.

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Identity Theft Insurance Scams Cybersecurity 79

SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

However, as a result of the Data Breach, both the past lab results and future lab orders that Rubenstein had through July 2021 were inaccessible to him. Rubenstein altogether missed a regularly scheduled bone marrow biopsy in May 2021 due to the Data Breach and its resultant online network failure.

Ransomware 58

Ransomware Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft 58

Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

And it wasn’t because the media paid more attention to this relative newcomer in the area of cybercrime. Get Covered: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Cyberattacks and data breaches have become the third certainty in life after death and taxes. Don’t be the next Heritage Company.

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Cyber threats Ransomware Encryption Insurance 215

SecureWorld News

JUNE 30, 2021

However, as a result of the Data Breach, both the past lab results and future lab orders that Rubenstein had through July 2021 were inaccessible to him. Rubenstein altogether missed a regularly scheduled bone marrow biopsy in May 2021 due to the Data Breach and its resultant online network failure.

Ransomware 53

Ransomware Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft 53

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The State of Cybercrime. Malware is now the favorite weapon for all kinds of attackers, from state sponsored cyber war, to industrial espionage, fraud, identity theft and just about any other cybercrime you can think of. For years, the easiest way to distribute malware was by email.

Identity Theft 40

Identity Theft Cybercrime Malware Insurance 40

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This is exactly the sort of information criminals can use to impersonate victims to banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, cell phone companies and other businesses vulnerable to fraud. As a result, all 143 million US victims are at greater risk of identity theft, and will remain at risk for years to come.

Computers and Electronics 209

Computers and Electronics Identity Theft Internet Internet 209

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Technology Scams 130