Cybercrime Hacking Insurance 
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. Today they are going to send me a report on the supposed hacking.” Stolen files allegedly include contracts, insurance, and financial documents. ” reported the Associated Press.
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.
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Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
for stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. Shefel says he is now flat broke, and that he currently has little to show for a storied hacking career. Mr. Golubov could not be reached for comment, and Shefel says he no longer has the laptop containing evidence to support that claim.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 26, 2025
Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cybersecurity issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself to us as ALPHV/Blackcat. However, after a $22 million transaction, an affiliate publicly complained on a Russian cybercrime forum, alleging that BlackCat did not pay their fee. population.”
Joseph Steinberg
OCTOBER 24, 2022
This major incident became known to the Australia’s pubic just two weeks after it learned that Optus, the country’s second-largest mobile phone network provider, was also hacked, leading to the records of nearly 10 million of its customers’ data being held for ransom by a cybercriminal.
Krebs on Security
MAY 15, 2025
In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick , a.k.a.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2024
“Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cybersecurity issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself to us as ALPHV/Blackcat.” However, after a $22 million transaction, an affiliate publicly complained on a Russian cybercrime forum, alleging that BlackCat did not pay their fee.
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