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Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors

Security Affairs

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. Drug prescription listings). Who had access to the data?

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Myrocket HR platform’s data leak turns into privacy nightmare for employees

Security Affairs

has exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of employees and millions of job candidates. The security loophole resulted in millions of private documents being revealed to the public. HR management platform myrocket.co Original post at CyberNews. With the help of Cybernews, we were [able] to patch it much sooner.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Video-sharing app TikTok agreed to a record $5.7 million (£4.2

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NYDFS settles cybersecurity regulation matter for $3 million

Data Protection Report

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $3 million settlement with insurance company National Securities Corp. According to the consent order, the matter began when NSC reported a cybersecurity event to NYDFS on October 23, 2019. The second incident occurred in March of 2019.

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US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . According to a joint report published by RiskIQ and FlashPoint in 2019 , some groups are more advanced than others, in particular, the gang tracked as Group 4 appears to be very sophisticated. The malware was completely removed on November 11, 2019.

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New York SHIELD Act $600,000 settlement

Data Protection Report

In total, information for approximately 2.1 million individuals was exposed, including approximately 98,632 New Yorkers.The AG began an investigation based on New York’s Executive Law § 63(12) [deception] and General Business Law §§ 349 [deception] and 899-bb. In total, information for approximately 2.1