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Delta Dental of California and its affiliates are warning almost seven million patients that they suffered a data breach after personal data was exposed in a MOVEit Transfer software breach. Delta Dental of California is a dental insurance provider that covers 45 million people across 15 states and is part of the Delta Dental Plans Association.

Delta Dental of California is warning almost seven million patients that they suffered a data breach after personal data was exposed in a MOVEit Transfer software breach. Delta Dental is a dental insurance provider that covers 85 million people across 50 states, but this data breach notice concerns the California division of the company.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine this week disclosed that users of the Delta situational awareness program received phishing emails from a compromised email account belonging to the Ministry of Defense. The attacks, which have been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed UAC-0142, aimed to infect systems with two pieces of data-stealing malware referred to as FateGrab and StealDeal.

A compromised Ukrainian Ministry of Defense email account was found sending phishing emails and instant messages to users of the 'DELTA' situational awareness program to infect systems with information-stealing malware. The campaign was highlighted in a report today by CERT-UA, which warned Ukrainian military personnel of the malware attack.

Delta Electronics, an electronics company that provides products for Apple, Tesla, HP and Dell, disclosed Friday that "Non-critical systems" were attacked by "Overseas hackers" - an attack that's been attributed to the Conti Group. Taiwanese storage and networking equipment provider QNAP Systems forced out an update to its customers' network attached storage devices after warning them earlier this week that the DeadBolt ransomware was in offensive mode against them.

A US utility company based in Colorado was hit by a ransomware attack in November that wiped out two decades' worth of records and knocked out billing systems that won't be restored until next week at the earliest. "We are a victim of a malicious cyber security attack. In the middle of an investigation, that is as far as I'm willing to go," DMEA chief exec Alyssa Clemsen Roberts told a public board meeting, as reported by a local paper.

Since the onset of COVID-19, online learning has been transformed into a standard part of the school day for students and teachers around the globe. While virtual learning may help schools safely continue operations during the coronavirus pandemic, the framework does pose new cybersecurity risks as students and teachers log into the virtual classroom.

For companies going fully remote again, team cohesion, cloud investments and reducing IT burden could be key, according to tech experts. After a year of remote work, companies were starting to bring employees back to the office, but the more contagious delta variant and surging COVID-19 cases are giving employers pause; complicating office reentry timelines.

Databricks announced the launch of a new open source project called Delta Sharing, an open protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, completely independent of the platform on which the data resides. "The top challenge for data providers today is making their data easily and broadly consumable. Managing dozens of different data delivery solutions to reach all user platforms is untenable. An open, interoperable standard for real-time data sharing will dramatically improve the experience for both data providers and data users," said Matei Zaharia, Chief Technologist and Co-Founder of Databricks.

Delta launched an innovative digital exhibition under the theme 'Pioneering Energy-efficient Infrastructure Technologies' to unveil new smart and energy-efficient solutions for 5G and IoT edge computing, e-mobility, as well as smart manufacturing. These include the SmartNode modularised data centre solution for fast and flexible implementation of energy-efficient edge computing data centres; the UFC200 Ultra Fast EV charger, a 200kW system especially for charging point operators and fleet managers; and Delta's DIAStudio Smart Machine Suite, a digital platform that enables efficient machine development and configuration.