Security News
Fragomen, a law firm that provides Google with I-9 employment verification compliance services, says the personal information of some people was compromised in a recent data breach. In a notice of data breach filed with California's Office of the Attorney General, Fragomen is informing affected Google employees of a data breach that it discovered on September 24, and which has resulted in personal information being compromised.
A large psychotherapy clinic in Finland is under heavy stress after a threat actor asked a ransom for a client database with confidential information stolen in a data breach that likely happened almost two years ago. Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo announced the incident last Wednesday, saying that the extortionist first contacted three of its employees in September, asking for 40 bitcoins not to release stolen patient data.
Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP has disclosed a data breach that exposed current and former Google employees' personal information. Fragomen is one of the USA's largest law firms covering immigration law, with over 582 attorneys in 47 locations worldwide.
A massive data breach suffered by the Nitro PDF service impacts many well-known organizations, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Chase, and Citibank. On October 21st, Nitro Software issued an advisory to the Australia Stock Exchange, stating that they were affected by a "Low impact security incident" but that no customer data was impacted.
Dr. Reddy's, the contractor for Russia's "Sputinik V" COVID-19 vaccine and a major generics producer, has had to close plants and isolate its data centers. COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has shut down its plants in Brazil, India, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. following a cyberattack, according to reports.
The personal information of roughly 46,000 veterans was affected in a recent security incident, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Management said in a Monday statement. The data breach involved an online application pertaining to the Financial Services Center, which was accessed by "Unauthorized users to divert payments to community health care providers for the medical treatment of Veterans."
Exonar, has today published research revealing that 94 percent of IT pros have experienced a data breach, and an overwhelming majority are worried that their current organization could be next. Just 6 percent of those surveyed said they had never knowingly experienced a data breach.
Warner Music Group last week started informing customers of its e-commerce websites that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by an external service provider. In a data breach notification submitted to the California Attorney General, the music company said it learned of the breach on August 5, but the hackers had access to the impacted websites since April 25, 2020.
Dataguise announced a patent-pending method of projecting unique data counts that enables organizations to report the impact of a data breach faster and more accurately than ever before. "Dataguise has helped us improve our overall data governance and security posture by giving us an enterprise-wide view of sensitive data across the myriad data repositories we use, both on premises and cloud," said Lynn Winiarczyk, Business Technology Manager, Master Data and Data Governance at KeyBank.
Freepik Company, the organization behind the Freepik and Flaticon websites, has disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 8.3 million of their users. On Flaticon, users can find over 3 million vector icons in various file formats.