Security News
The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles is warning of a "Data security event" after the LockBit ransomware gang targeted the organization and leaked data stolen in the attack. HACLA is a state-chartered agency that provides affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Los Angeles, California.
Healthcare platform Cerebral is sending data breach notices to 3.18 million people who have interacted with its websites, applications, and telehealth services. Cerebral is a remote telehealth company that provides online therapy and medication management for various mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and substance abuse.
AT&T is notifying roughly 9 million customers that some of their information was exposed after a marketing vendor was hacked in January. "The information did not contain credit card information, Social Security Number, account passwords or other sensitive personal information. We are notifying affected customers."
The FBI is investigating a data breach affecting U.S. House of Representatives members and staff after their account and sensitive personal information was stolen from DC Health Link's servers. DC Health Link is the organization that administers the health care plans of U.S. House members, their staff, and their families.
The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what's a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date. The embattled password management service last week revealed how unidentified actors leveraged information stolen from an earlier incident that took place prior to August 12, 2022, along with details "Available from a third-party data breach and a vulnerability in a third-party media software package to launch a coordinated second attack" between August and October 2022.
Fintech banking platform Hatch Bank has reported a data breach after hackers stole the personal information of almost 140,000 customers from the company's Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform. As reported by TechCrunch, data breach notifications sent to impacted customers and filed with Attorney General's offices warned that hackers exploited a vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT software to steal the data of 139,493 customers.
Stanford University disclosed a data breach after files containing Economics Ph.D. program admission information were downloaded from its website between December 2022 and January 2023. Last week, the university sent data breach notification letters to those who submitted personal and health information as part of the graduate application to its Department of Economics, informing them that their info was accessed without authorization.
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The healthcare provider giant said on Monday that Fortra issued an alert saying that it had "Experienced a security incident" leading to some CHS data being compromised. A subsequent investigation revealed that the resulting data breach affected the personal and health information of up to 1 million patients.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures LLC suffered a data breach caused by a network intrusion that resulted in the installation of information-stealing malware and the extraction of data from its IT systems.Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages in the United States, responsible for manufacturing, selling, and distributing popular consumer brands.