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21 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Another big healthcare sector data breach, impacting 480 thousand Catholic Health patients. Their 3rd party vendor Serviceaide is the root cause of this exposure. This is the latest in many healthcare data breaches this year! Year-to-Date we are at...
16 May 2025 1 minute read 4 comments Matthew Rosenquist
This is how you handle cybercrime digital extortion! Coinbase was compromised by trusted 3rd party partners, which exposed customer data — but customer keys to their assets were still safe. The cyber criminals then attempted to extort $20 million fr...
9 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist
The PowerSchool data breach nightmare of 2024 doesn’t end. Here is a quick rundown to catch up, before I call out some key learnings: In December 2024, PowerSchool was breached by ransomware attackers who claimed to have copied 62 million records, a...
7 Nov 2023 2 minute read 4 comments Debesh Choudhury
Massive data breach of a national digital ID system! India's Digital Identity system Aadhaar's recent data breach made it clear that Aadhaar is highly security vulnerable and a broken ID system! More than 81 crores (0.81 billion) of Indian citizens'...
4 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Caesars Rewards Members are receiving notice of the data breach that occurred more than a month prior. The breach occurred in August 2023, but Caesars did not report it to regulatory officials until September 2023 and is finally notifying victims in...
11 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist
The recent HCA Healthcare data breach of 11 million patients’ data is shaping up to be another ugly incident where a company did not promptly communicate with its customers. HCA Healthcare is a large American healthcare services organization that co...
28 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Happy Privacy Day! Now go check to see if EMOTET botnet has stolen your email and password. Europol and a team of global law enforcement have successfully taken down part of the EMOTET botnet infrastructure and seized private data harvested by the...
15 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Owners of Ledger wallets whose personal information was compromised in the Jun. 2020 leak have begun receiving threats from malicious actors who hold the information. One Reddit users, Cryptohomie, said that his father had received an email from on...
8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ArgentinaPress
It uses a digital version of your loved ones to do so, but how do they get the data... The project plans the creation of a chatbot or digital copy to recreate the persons’ talking characteristics to bring anyone back to life virtually. It’ll gather...
30 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger suffered a data breach in late June, the team revealed in a blog post that was published on July 29. The attack, which targeted the company’s marketing and e-commerce database, has exposed the perso...
