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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. Welfare Benefits Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 13,079 Insurance ACE/Humana Inc. Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations. Among those affected was SAP SE. Breached records: more than 56 million. NTT Business Solutions in Osaka handles the computer system used by NTT call centres.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. In November 2023, Northwell Health – the largest health system in New York – confirmed that it was affected by the incident.

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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. . ” RECYCLING VICTIMS.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Transport USA Yes 129,611 Tcman Source (New) Manufacturing Spain Yes 108 GB (179 files) Compass Group Italia Source (New) Hospitality Italy Yes 107 GB Pan-American Life Insurance Group, Inc.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

Known records breached Real Estate Wealth Network Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Real estate USA Unknown 1,523,776,691 TuneFab Source (New) Software Hong Kong Unknown >151,000,000 Dori Media Group Source (New) Media Israel Yes >100 TB Rosvodokanal Source (New) Utilities Russia Yes 50 TB breached; 1.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

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GB dataset on a hacking forum, claiming to still have access to the breached system. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords.