Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. If you bought or sold a property in the last two decades or so, chances are decent that you also gave loads of personal and financial documents to First American.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2024

wireless carriers nearly $200 million for unlawfully selling access to real-time location data of their customers without consent. Hutcheson allegedly provided irrelevant documents, such as health insurance and auto insurance policies, along with pages from sheriff training manuals, as evidence of authorization to access the data.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American [ NYSE:FAF ] is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in $6.2 billion in 2019.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

The “RCM” portion of its name refers to “revenue cycle management,” an industry which tracks profits throughout the life cycle of each patient, including patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation, and bill preparation and collection from patients.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

The data exposures all stem from a misconfiguration in Salesforce Community that allows an unauthenticated user to access records that should only be available after logging in. Customers can access a Salesforce Community website in two ways: Authenticated access (requiring login), and guest user access (no login required).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm revealed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Catherine Ostheimer Being responsive to the growing number of Access Requests and DSARS as a local government organization can be daunting. There is also the issue of dealing effectively with different formats and sources during the discovery process, such as emails, documents, social media, collaboration app chats, and more.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

On December 28, 2018, Michigan adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law in the form of Michigan H.B. The Act defines licensees as persons authorized, registered, or licensed under Michigan insurance laws or required to be so. 6491 (Act). MCL § 500.550. MCL § 500.550.

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Rocket Software

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Travel insurance can give travelers some assurance that, if something does go wrong, they have resources that can help them receive medical attention, stay safe, and return home. . Customers could not easily access the information they needed, as the interface was not user-friendly or intuitive. The Solution: Rocket ® EOS 360.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 7, 2023

New paper: “ Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys “: Abstract: Incident Response (IR) allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. It should also help the wider community avoid similar attacks in the future.

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eDiscovery Law

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Key Insight: Waiver of privilege for documents inadvertently posted to publicly accessible Box.com location Nature of Case: insurance coverage litigation Electronic Data Involved: Box.com uploads Keywords: Box.com, privilege waiver, publicly accessible, account permissions, file sharing Identified State Rule(s): Va.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

The Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) is a non-profit organization that provides health insurance and medical care services to its members in the Madison metropolitan area of Wisconsin. The organization disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack, the incident impacted 533,809 individuals.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. “Due to an attack on the systems, unauthorized persons gained access to personal data. TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions.

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Armstrong Archives

MARCH 27, 2018

Your insurance company has been collecting and storing consumer data for as long as it’s been in business. If you provide medical insurance, the documents you collect are high-value targets for criminals. When you need access, it’s easy to find the container you need. Benefits of Off-Site Storage.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

PerCSoft , a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack. West Allis, Wis.-based ” Read the full ProPublica piece here. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions. The services provided by Toyota Financial Services may vary by region, and customers can typically access these services through Toyota dealerships or online platforms.

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AIIM

AUGUST 19, 2021

Despite the proven operational improvements to be gain by going paperless, paper is still prevalent in too many core business processes today including loan applications, insurance claims, and customer onboarding. This ease of access greatly improves efficiency in a variety of contexts, such as approval processes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. A new report published by researchers at Flashpoint revealed the availability on an underground hacking forum for Russian-speaking users of access to over 3,000 breached websites.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Australian health insurer Medibank confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 Medibank is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers with approximately 3.9 million customers. million customers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums. After further investigation, we have concluded that these documents belonged to people injured or deceased in traffic accidents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

The chipmaker confirmed it became aware of the unauthorized access to certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024. According to the announcement, the stolen data includes: - 285 Gb of quality control data - 24 Gb - 896 client folders, many famous brands like SpaceX, IBM, Apple, Huawei, etc. - All data is confidential, contains trade secrets. -

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commissio n (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. No authentication was required to view the documents. In its letter, the SEC asked Shoval to preserve and share any documents or evidence he had related to the data exposure.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Who had access to the data?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While investigating the incident, it discovered that confidential consumer information had been accessed by an unauthorised third party. On 2 September, it confirmed that an unauthorised party had accessed or removed some of its files, some of which contained confidential patient information.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. In March 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alerted Citrix they had reason to believe cybercriminals had gained access to the company’s internal network.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

AMCA has advised LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are not stored or maintained for LabCorp consumers.” Many readers wrote in to say they’d never heard of First American, but it is the largest title insurance company in the United States. million patients.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2023

On December 12, 2022, the Cybernews research team discovered a publicly accessible database with 260GB of sensitive personal data belonging to myrocket.co, offering ‘end-to-end’ recruitment solutions and HR services for companies in India. The security loophole resulted in millions of private documents being revealed to the public.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Holden said the internal discussions among the Venus group members indicate this gang has no problem gaining access to victim organizations. First spotted in mid-August 2022 , Venus is known for hacking into victims’ publicly-exposed Remote Desktop services to encrypt Windows devices. “They are targeting a lot of U.S. ”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The attackers compromised one of the company systems and had access to the emails and documents of some employees. “On January 20, 2022, News Corp discovered cyberattack activity on a business email and document storage system used by several News Corp businesses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2023

The gang initially leaked samples of the stolen data as proof of the attack, it claimed to have stolen contracts, NDA and other agreements documents, company private info (budgets, plans, evaluations, revenue cycle, investors relations, company structure, etc.), ” reads the Notice of Incident published by Consulate Health Care.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Corrective Action Plan also requires GRBH to submit implementation and annual reports to HHS and comply with document retention requirements. Finally, the investigation indicated that GRBH violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule by failing to meet the requirement not to use or disclose PHI except as permitted by the Rule.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Researchers at cybernews.com recently uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 36,000 documents, including scans of passports, credit cards, and health insurance cards. As of June 5, the Ariix Italia data bucket has been closed and is no longer accessible. Who had access?

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ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

These undertakings require planning, communication, documentation, and collaboration to be successful. My responsibilities include creating and maintaining RIM policies and procedures concerning access, maintenance, retention, preservation, and arrangement of all business and archival records. It was grim.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nocel granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel and to enforce, ordering the defendants to “resubmit to plaintiff the subject low-quality documents in a non-blurry, legible form digitally accessible to plaintiff, and with the same bates-stamp numbers as the original production”. 30, 2018) , Missouri Magistrate Judge David D.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Threat actors had access to its infrastructure. Our forensic team is continuing to conduct an assessment of the data accessed and we will provide further updates as we have them.” The ransomware group initially claimed to have exfiltrated 533.1GB of data from the company and published thumbnails of some alleged stolen documents.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

Security experts investigating 16Shop found the service used an application programming interface (API) to manage its users, an innovation that allowed its proprietors to shut off access to customers who failed to pay a monthly fee, or for those attempting to copy or pirate the phishing kit. Image: ZeroFox.

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