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    Bank of America customer data exposed in IT provider breach

    Infosys McCamish Systems, which works closely with the lender, was impacted by the cybersecurity incident in November that exposed customer Social Security numbers and other account information.

    By Rajashree Chakravarty , • Feb. 13, 2024
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    HHS settles cybersecurity investigation with Montefiore Medical Center

    The nonprofit will pay $4.75 million to settle allegations that data security failures allowed an employee to steal and sell the protected health information of thousands of patients.

    By Emily Olsen • Feb. 8, 2024
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    Securing the cloud

    A host of new technologies and a spate of incidents at top providers means businesses have even more cloud security conundrums to consider. 

    By Cybersecurity Dive staff
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    Mortgage industry attack spree punctuates common errors

    Attacks against Mr. Cooper Group, Fidelity National Financial, First American Financial and loanDepot impacted operations and put customers in a bind.

    By • Feb. 6, 2024
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    AnyDesk initiates extensive credentials reset following cyberattack

    The widely used remote access tool revoked all passwords to its web portal as researchers warn about potential theft of AnyDesk’s code signing certificate.

    By • Feb. 5, 2024
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    Cloudflare hit by follow-on attack from previous Okta breach

    A threat actor that previously intruded Cloudflare’s network through its Okta environment regained access with mistakenly unrotated credentials.

    By • Feb. 2, 2024
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    MOVEit liabilities mount for Progress Software

    The company revealed multiple government investigations are underway into the MOVEit vulnerability. It’s also party to more than 100 class-action lawsuits.

    By • Jan. 30, 2024
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    Schneider Electric hit by ransomware attack against its sustainability business division

    Cactus ransomware reportedly claimed credit for the mid-January attack, and the company unit hopes to restore operations in the next couple of days.

    By • Jan. 30, 2024
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    HPE hit by a monthslong cyberattack on its cloud-based email

    The attack by Midnight Blizzard, the group that recently hit Microsoft, stole emails and data from HPE employees in cybersecurity and other business units.

    By • Jan. 25, 2024
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    US data compromises surged to record high in 2023

    Breached organizations are withholding critical information more often than ever, underscoring a trend toward opaque notices, the Identity Theft Resource Center said.

    By • Jan. 25, 2024
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    VF Corp. cyberattack impacted 35.5M consumers

    The North Face and Vans parent company originally reported the incident at the height of the holiday season.

    By Kaarin Moore • Jan. 23, 2024
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    The number of patient records exposed in data breaches doubled in 2023

    Though the number of data breaches declined slightly from 2022, more than 116 million records were exposed last year, Fortified Health Security found. 

    By Emily Olsen • Jan. 18, 2024
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    Wealthy countries boast superior cyber defenses

    A nation’s economic prosperity is directly linked to greater defense capabilities, but no country is overachieving in cyber defense, according to SecurityScorecard.

    By • Jan. 17, 2024
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    Progress Software’s MOVEit meltdown: uncovering the fallout

    Businesses use the file-transfer service because it checks the compliance boxes for keeping data safe. Though initial attacks were targeted, thousands of bystanding businesses were hit indiscriminately.

    By , • Jan. 16, 2024
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    Fidelity National Financial cyberattack impacts up to 1.3M customers

    While data was stolen and the company faces lawsuits, it does not consider the attack material to the business.

    By • Jan. 10, 2024
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    How to ensure data privacy in a ChatGPT world

    CISOs and CIOs have to balance the need to restrict sensitive data from generative AI tools with the need for businesses to use these tools to improve processes and increase productivity. 

    By Sue Poremba • Jan. 9, 2024
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    LoanDepot caught in mortgage industry cyberattack spree

    The non-bank mortgage lender is the fourth major real estate industry organization hit by a cyberattack since late October.

    By • Jan. 8, 2024
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    Extent of a cyber specialist law firm’s data breach grows

    A two-week long breach exposed a trove of highly sensitive information on Orrick’s clients. The pool of victims quadrupled between its July and December disclosures.

    By • Jan. 5, 2024
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    Xerox discloses a subsidiary’s breach following ransomware claim of data theft

    Inc, a relatively new threat group, previously claimed to have stolen company data.

    By • Jan. 3, 2024
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    First American Financial confirms threat actors stole and encrypted data

    The title insurance giant said the cyberattack is contained, but it is still working to determine whether the incident will have a material impact.

    By • Updated Jan. 4, 2024
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    First American Financial takes systems offline after cyber incident

    The incident comes just weeks after the title insurance firm reached a $1 million settlement with New York state financial regulators for a massive 2019 data breach that impacted 885 million customer records.

    By • Updated Dec. 27, 2023
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    Comcast’s Xfinity discloses massive data breach linked to CitrixBleed vulnerability

    The breach, involving 35.9 million customers, took place just a week after Citrix released a patch for a critical flaw.

    By • Dec. 19, 2023
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    Henry Schein says 29K people affected in September cyberattack

    The ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat claimed responsibility for the data breach and a second incident involving the company.

    By Susan Kelly • Dec. 11, 2023
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    Norton Healthcare ransomware attack exposes 2.5M people

    Ransomware attacks are soaring in the healthcare sector, impacting more than 88 million people in the first 10 months of 2023, according to HHS.

    By • Dec. 11, 2023
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    Data breaches fallout reach new heights as the number of exposed records soars

    The increased threat to and exposure of personal data is linked to two key factors: a rise in ransomware and attacks against vendors, an MIT study found.

    By • Dec. 8, 2023
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    North Texas water utility the latest suspected industrial ransomware target

    Federal authorities are investigating multiple attacks against water and wastewater treatment facilities in the U.S. following an Iran-linked attack in Pennsylvania.

    By • Nov. 30, 2023