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Law Firm to Pay $8M to Settle Health Data Hack Lawsuit

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Orrick Herrington Cyberattack Compromised Clients' Data, Affected Nearly 638,000 A global law firm that provides data breach legal services has agreed to an $8 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action lawsuit filed against the firm in the aftermath of its cyberattack last year, which affected some health sector clients and nearly 638,000 (..)

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Judge Advises Dismissal of CommonSpirit Breach Lawsuit

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Proposed Class Action Claim Is Second Recent Case Tossed by Federal Judges A second federal judge has recommended the dismissal of a second proposed class action lawsuit against Catholic hospital chain CommonSpirit over a 2022 cyberattack and data breach that affected nearly 624,000 people.

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Change Health Attack: Details Emerge; Breach Will Top Record

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Experts Advise Health Sector to Take Steps as UnitedHealth Group Cleans Up Mess UnitedHealth Group's admission that information for "a substantial portion" of the American population was compromised in its Change Healthcare cyberattack sets into motion the likelihood the incident will become the largest health data breach ever reported in U.S.

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Western Digital notifies customers of data breach after March cyberattack

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Western Digital is notifying its customers of a data breach that exposed their sensitive personal information, the incident took place in March. The company is sending customers data breach notification letters to confirm that threat actors have stolen sensitive personal information in the March attack.

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Retailer WH Smith discloses data breach after a cyberattack

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Retailer WH Smith disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack, threat actors had access to access company data. Retailer WH Smith revealed that threat actors have breached its infrastructure and had access to the data of about 12,500 current and former employees.

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Breach Roundup: Zenbleed Flaw Exposes AMD Ryzen CPUs

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Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Center Suffers Cyberattack; NATO's COI Portal Breached This week, a Zenbleed flaw exposed AMD Ryzen CPUs, Facebook was fined AU$20 million in Australia, NATO's COI Portal was breached, Quinn Emanuel reported a cyberattack, VirusTotal apologized for a data leak, Wuhan Earthquake Monitoring Center had a cyberattack and Yamaha (..)

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There was no data breach in the cyberattack against Minneapolis Police

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Last week a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack shut down the websites and systems of Minneapolis, but there is no evidence of a breach. On Thursday, the city’s website was not reachable due to the cyberattack that was launched as a retaliation for the death of George Floyd. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 31, 2020.