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

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Further victims of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ransomware attack identified Harvard Pilgrim Health Care suffered a ransomware attack in April 2023, which it has been investigating since then. Welfare Benefits Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 13,079 Insurance ACE/Humana Inc. Data breached: 2.7

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ICYMI –December in privacy and cybersecurity

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1. As of December 18, 2023, unless the U.S. 5. Headlines in 2023 also had many references to artificial intelligence. We have set out some updates in the form of questions, with links in the answers where you can find more information. (For Answers are below.

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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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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

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million customers’ data stolen VF Corporation – the parent company of many popular clothing brands, including Vans and The North Face – has confirmed in its Form 8-K/A filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (an amendment to its original Form 8-K filing ) that its December 2023 cyber attack resulted in the theft of 35.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

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Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1 million patients and 1.6 million unique Social Security numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 January 2024

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Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number). It remains unclear how the data breach occurred, but the attackers apparently suggested it was the result of “exploiting vulnerabilities within government databases of telecommunication systems”.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 11 – 18 December 2023

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When the Russian Cl0p gang exploited a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer in May 2023, Delta Dental was one of hundreds of organisations whose data was compromised. The data belonged to nearly 7 million individuals. Data breached: personal data belonging to 6,928,932 individuals. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1.1