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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. Who had access to the data?

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

Unfortunately, the number of breached records doesn’t tell the full story, as there were a whopping 105 incidents – making February 2020 the second leakiest month we’ve ever recorded. Quebec teachers’ data stolen in password breach (360,000). Pacific Specialty Insurance Company notifies plan members of 2019 data breach (unknown).

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Vermont’s Amendments to Data Breach Law and New Student Privacy Law Effective July 1, 2020

Hunton Privacy

On July 1, 2020, amendments to Vermont’s data breach notification law, signed into law earlier this year, will take effect along with Vermont’s new student privacy law. Security Breach Notice Act.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. We logged 134 security incidents in December, which accounted for 148,354,955 breached records.

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New York SHIELD Act $600,000 settlement

Data Protection Report

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

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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). Records breached: 815,000,000 Milford Management Corp. Records breached: 815,000,000 Milford Management Corp.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked

IT Governance

The FBI estimates that $12 billion has been lost in these scams globally over the past five years. Social insurance numbers. California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices. California has passed a law banning default passwords such as ‘admin’, ‘123456’ and ‘password’. Internal land claims.