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HHS Mandates Patient Notification After Change Healthcare Data Breach

SecureWorld News

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. Patients have a right to know if their private health data may have been compromised," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit providers of health care and coverage in the United States, is dealing with the fallout from a significant data breach that has affected more than 13 million individuals. The company revealed details of the incident in a public notification posted on April 25th.

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For Whom the Dell Tolls: Data Breach Affects 49 Million Customers

SecureWorld News

Dell, one of the world's largest technology companies, has just disclosed a major data breach that may have compromised the personal information of tens of millions of current and former customers. The breach went undetected for several months before finally being discovered in early 2023. What data was accessed?

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VulnRecap 2/26/24 – VMWare, Apple, ScreenConnect Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

Urgent patching and prompt updates can protect systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and potential exploitation by threat actors. To secure sensitive data, cybersecurity specialists, software vendors, and end users should encourage collaborative efforts against malicious activities.

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“Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach

Malwarebytes

In the update, the company revealed the scale of the breach, saying: “Based on initial targeted data sampling to date, the company has found files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII), which could cover a substantial proportion of people in America.” Check the vendor’s advice.

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Mother of all Breaches may contain NEW breach data

Malwarebytes

On January 23, 2024, we reported on the discovery of billions of exposed records online, now commonly referred to as the “ mother of all breaches ” (MOAB). Since then, the source of the dataset has been identified as data breach search engine Leak-Lookup. This in itself constitutes multiple risks.

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The ‘AT&T breach’—what you need to know

Malwarebytes

Fast forward three years and another threat actor calling themselves MajorNelson has leaked what they say is the same data. However, AT&T denies (both in 2021 and, now, in 2024) that the data came from its systems, telling BleepingComputer that it’s seen no evidence of a breach.