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Halliburton confirms data was stolen in ongoing cyberattack

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Energy giant Halliburton has confirmed its systems were hacked and that intruders “accessed and exfiltrated information” following a cyberattack last week. In a brief filing with government regulators on Tuesday, Halliburton said it was “evaluating the nature and scope of the [stolen] information,” and what data breach notifications it is required to make. Halliburton last […]

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Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack

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Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.  In a brief statement filed with government regulators on Thursday, Halliburton said it became aware of unauthorized access to its systems on Wednesday and responded by “proactively taking certain systems offline.” The company

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How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

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A ransomware attack earlier this year on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare likely stands as one of the largest data breaches of U.S. health and medical data in history. Months after the February data breach, a “substantial proportion of people living in America” are receiving notice by mail that their personal and health information

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

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We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of

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CSC ServiceWorks reveals 2023 data breach affecting thousands of people

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Laundry giant CSC ServiceWorks says tens of thousands of people had their personal information stolen from its systems after recently disclosing a cyberattack from 2023. The New York-based laundry giant provides over a million internet-connected laundry machines to residential buildings, hotels, and university campuses around North America and Europe. CSC also employs more than 3,200

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Student raised security concerns in Mobile Guardian MDM weeks before cyberattack

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A person claiming to be a student in Singapore publicly posted documentation showing lax security in a widely popular school mobile device management service called Mobile Guardian, weeks before a cyberattack on the company resulted in the mass-wiping of student devices and widespread disruption. In an email with TechCrunch, the student — who declined to

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UK data watchdog fines NHS vendor Advanced for security failures prior to LockBit ransomware attack

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U.K. data protection authorities have issued a provisional fine of more than £6 million to NHS vendor Advanced after finding that the company failed to properly secure the information of thousands of people later stolen in a ransomware attack. In a statement, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) said it issued the fine after determining

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Cyberattack knocks Mobile Guardian MDM offline and wipes thousands of student devices

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A cyberattack on Mobile Guardian, a U.K.-based provider of educational device management software, has sparked outages at schools across the world and left thousands of students unable to access their files.  Mobile Guardian acknowledged the cyberattack in a statement on its website, saying it identified “unauthorized access to the iOS and ChromeOS devices enrolled to

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How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable

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A cyberattack on the U.K. Electoral Commission that resulted in the data breach of voter register records on 40 million people was entirely preventable had the organization used basic security measures, according to the findings from a damning report by the U.K.’s data protection watchdog published this week. The report published by the U.K.’s Information

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HealthEquity data breach affects 4.3 million people

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HealthEquity is notifying 4.3 million people following a March data breach that affects their personal and protected health information. In its data breach notice, filed with Maine’s attorney general, the Utah-based healthcare benefits administrator said that although the compromised data varies by person, it largely consists of sign-up information for accounts and information about benefits

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