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Identity Theft Healthcare Scams Banking 76

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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Healthcare Data breaches Social Engineering Identity Theft 89

Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

The unauthorized actor gained access to Magellan’s systems after sending a phishing email on April 6 that impersonated a Magellan client,” The healthcare giant reported the incident to the US authorities and retained experts from cybersecurity firm Mandiant to help with the investigation into the cyber attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Healthcare Ransomware Identity Theft 129

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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Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Social Engineering 72

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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Data breaches Identity Theft Healthcare Phishing 138

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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Identity Theft Big data Manufacturing Healthcare 137

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ngo was recently deported back to his home country after serving more than seven years in prison for running multiple identity theft services. One of the names of his identity theft services was findget[.]me,” He now says he wants to use his experience to convince other cybercriminals to use their skills for good.

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Identity Theft Retail Government Banking 325

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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Data breaches Healthcare Identity Theft Insurance 81

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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Healthcare Insurance Computers and Electronics Data collection 170

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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Identity Theft Passwords Education Banking 98

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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Media Authentication Identity Theft Engineering 88

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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Ransomware Computers and Electronics Passwords Identity Theft 88

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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Cyber Attacks Identity Theft Passwords Ransomware 108

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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Digital transformation Authentication Identity Theft Passwords 109

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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Media Risk Cybersecurity Education 89

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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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

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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Risk Authentication System Administration Ransomware 111

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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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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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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Scams Computers and Electronics Insurance Social Engineering 92

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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Artificial Intelligence Technology Banking InfoSec 40

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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Data breaches Ransomware Encryption Insurance 80

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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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 96