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Texas medical school says hackers stole sensitive health data of 1.4 million individuals

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The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center confirmed hackers accessed the personal and sensitive health data of over 1.4 million individuals during a September cyberattack. The cyberattack, which also affected TTUHSC’s El Paso campus, saw attackers steal information including Social Security numbers, financial account information, government-issued ID details, and health information — including medical records […]

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Called your doctor after-hours? ConnectOnCall hackers may have stolen your medical data

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ConnectOnCall is alerting almost a million individuals whose personal and health information was stolen in a May data breach. ConnectOnCall, owned by healthcare tech company Phreesia, provides a digital answering service to healthcare providers for handling calls from patients outside of working hours. The May breach involves information shared between patients and doctor’s offices that

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Israeli spyware maker Paragon bought by U.S. private equity giant

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Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker that has largely kept a low profile in recent years, was acquired last week by American private equity giant AE Industrial Partners, according to Israeli news reports.  Tech news website Calcalist reported that the investment firm bought Paragon for $500 million, and depending on how the company grows, the deal

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Serbian police used Cellebrite to unlock, then plant spyware, on a journalist’s phone

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This year, a Serbian journalist and an activist had their phones hacked by local authorities using a cellphone-unlocking device made by forensic tool maker Cellebrite. The authorities’ goal was not only to unlock the phones to access their personal data, as Cellebrite allows, but also to install spyware to enable further surveillance, according to a

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Rhode Island says personal data likely breached in social services cyberattack

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State officials said hundreds of thousands of Rhode Island residents could be affected by a cyberattack on the state’s online portal for social services, with a “high probability” that  personally identifiable information was breached. According to an update from Governor Dan McKee’s office, the attack targeted RIBridges, which Rhode Island residents use to apply for

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UnitedHealthcare’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet

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Healthcare giant Optum has restricted access to an internal AI chatbot used by employees after a security researcher found it was publicly accessible online, and anyone could access it using only a web browser.  The chatbot, which TechCrunch has seen, allowed employees to ask the company questions about how to handle patient health insurance claims

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Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO

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Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned. Overall, the company has laid off or lost through attrition 40 to 50 people from a total of 200 employees in the cybersecurity team since the start of 2024, according to multiple current

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Bitcoin ATM giant Byte Federal says 58,000 users’ personal data compromised in breach

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Byte Federal, one of the largest Bitcoin ATM operators in the U.S., said the personal data of thousands of customers may have been compromised during a recent breach. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general, Florida-based Byte Federal said hackers tried to access the data of 58,000 customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers, government-issued IDs,

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Russian government spies targeted Ukraine using tools developed by cybercriminals

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A Russian-government backed hacking group targeted Ukraine’s military using tools and infrastructure developed by cybercriminals, according to new research. On Wednesday, Microsoft published a report detailing a hacking campaign carried out by a group it calls Secret Blizzard, which the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) previously said “is almost certainly subordinate to the

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Krispy Kreme discloses cyberattack that is disrupting online orders

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International doughnut chain Krispy Kreme disclosed a security incident on Wednesday, which the company said has caused  “certain operational disruptions, including with online ordering in parts of the United States.” Krispy Kreme disclosed the cyberattack in an 8-K filing with the SEC. The company said it was “notified regarding unauthorized activity on a portion of

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