T-Mobile USA says its massive data breach is worse than it first reported: The count of prepaid and postpaid customers whose information was stolen has risen to 14 million. Also revised upward: its count of 40 million exposed credit applications from former customers and prospects.
In recent years, benefits like agility and elasticity have driven rapid adoption of cloud-native applications in the financial services industry. However, moving to cloud and multicloud deployments brings security and compliance issues to the forefront, especially when it comes to customer data. Protecting data...
Several ransomware incidents have been added to the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks, with no signs of these attacks abating.
T-Mobile USA has confirmed that its systems were breached and that details for 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers and 850,000 prepaid customers as well as records for 40 million individuals who applied for credit were stolen.
Albuquerque, New Mexico-based UNM Health has reported to federal regulators a recent hacking/IT incident that is among the largest health data breaches posted to the Department of Health and Human Services' infamous "wall of shame" so far in 2021.
When is a data exposure not just a data exposure? According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission order, education publishing giant Pearson misled investors when it failed to proactively inform them that attackers had stolen millions of rows of student information, including poorly hashed passwords.
The ransomware attack that targeted Colonial Pipeline Co. in May compromised the personal information of more than 5,800 individuals, mainly current and former employees, according to a breach notification letter.
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A Houston-based gastroenterology practice notified all 162,000 of its patients and employees that their information had potentially been compromised in a January ransomware incident, saying it would have been too costly and time-consuming to pinpoint which individuals had data exposed. Was that the right move?
Two more healthcare delivery systems - Sanford Health and Eskenazi Health - are recovering from cyberattacks - both apparently involving ransomware - that are causing disruptions in service.
A Gartner study estimated that 1 in 3 security breaches will come via shadow IT. Shadow IT resources, which are typically in the cloud, are often purchased and used outside IT procurement and support policies. They create double trouble, bloating overall spend and leaving you vulnerable to cyberattacks or data loss....
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on UF Health Central Florida that disrupted access to patients' electronic health records for about a month during recovery, the entity is now reporting the incident also exposed patient information.
What do Facebook, Twitter, and Github all have in common? Data exposure incidents in recent years where even though they had locked down their data stores, credentials leaked into their log files creating painful, public security incidents. Modern software development practices, from microservices to CI/CD, make it...
Several recent health data breaches involving vendors - including more reports related to the Accellion file transfer appliance hack - show that managing vendor security risks remains a difficult ongoing challenge in the healthcare sector.
An Orlando-based family physicians' practice is notifying nearly 450,000 patients, employees and others about a phishing incident tied to a financial fraud attempt.
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