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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

Krebs on Security

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. Image: Tamer Tuncay, Shutterstock.com. million individuals.

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The FCC imposes $200 million in fines on four US carriers for unlawfully sharing user location data

Security Affairs

The fines come as a result of the Notices of Apparent Liability (NAL) issued by the FCC against AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon in February 2020. Verizon , on the other hand, faces a proposed fine exceeding $48 million, and Sprint faces a proposed fine of more than $12 million due to the actions taken by the FCC.

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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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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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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. EyeMed blocked the threat actor’s access on July 1.

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FDIC, FRB and OCC Issue Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships

Hunton Privacy

On June 6, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued their final Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships (“Guidance”).

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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. NSC), relating to violations of three different requirements of the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation during the period 2018 to 2020. NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.