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Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach

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Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved in a data breach. “Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a security event. We were […]

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Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500,000 Ohio residents

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The City of Columbus, Ohio’s state capital, has confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of 500,000 residents during a July ransomware attack.  In a filing with Maine’s attorney general, Columbus confirmed that a “foreign cyber threat actor” compromised its network to access information including residents’ names, dates of birth, addresses, identification documents, Social Security

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MoneyGram replaces CEO weeks after massive customer data breach

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Money transfer giant MoneyGram has replaced its chief executive less than a month after confirming that hackers stole reams of customers’ personal information and transaction records in a data breach. In a statement Monday, MoneyGram said it appointed Anthony Soohoo as the company’s chief executive with immediate effect. Soohoo replaces Alex Holmes, who joined MoneyGram

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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare data breach affects over 100 million people in America

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More than 100 million individuals had their private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector. This is the first time that UnitedHealth Group, the U.S. health insurance provider that owns the health tech company,

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SEC fines four companies $7 million for ‘misleading cyber disclosures’ regarding SolarWinds hack

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that it charged and imposed penalties on four companies for making misleading disclosures linked to the 2019 SolarWinds data breach.  The four companies charged are cybersecurity firms Check Point, which will pay a civil penalty of $995,000; Mimecast, which will pay $990,000; and the tech companies

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23andMe faces an uncertain future — so does your genetic data 

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DNA and genetic testing firm 23andMe is in turmoil following a data breach last year and its ongoing financial decline. The once-pioneering giant now faces an uncertain future amid efforts to take the company private, intensifying concerns about what might happen to the genetic data of 23andMe’s some 15 million customers. Best known for its

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Hackers are extorting Globe Life with stolen customer data

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Insurance giant Globe Life,  which provides life and health insurance policies to millions of Americans, says it is being extorted by a hacker that has stolen customers’ sensitive data. In a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, the Texas-based conglomerate said it has “recently received communications” from an unknown threat

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National Public Data, the hacked data broker that lost millions of Social Security numbers and more, files for bankruptcy

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A Florida data broker that lost hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information in a data breach earlier this year, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the company faces a wave of litigation. Jericho Pictures, the parent company of the hacked data broker National Public Data, told a

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