Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 01:47:03 +0000
A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for bankruptcy, citing “enormous expenses” from notifying affected consumers and the loss of its four largest customers.
Read moreCredit to Author: Joan Goodchild| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:00:00 +0000
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| Recent research from Malwarebytes, ISSA, and ESG find that security professionals have little confidence in their ability to prevent their organization from being breached. What’s behind this mindset? And how can we turn the tide to stay a step ahead of the criminals? Categories: Tags: adminsCISOscybercriminalsdata breachesITsecurity professionalsskills shortage |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 21:45:59 +0000
Medical testing giant LabCorp. said today personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach at a third-party billing collections firm. That third party — the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) — also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that an intrusion in its payments Web site exposed personal, financial and medical data on nearly 12 million Quest patients. Just a few days ago, the news was all about how Quest had suffered a major breach. But today’s disclosure by LabCorp. suggests we are nowhere near done hearing about other companies with millions of consumers victimized because of this incident: The AMCA is a New York company with a storied history of aggressively collecting debt for a broad range of businesses, including medical labs and hospitals, direct marketers, telecom companies, and state and local traffic/toll agencies.
Read moreCredit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:58:59 +0000
New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] as the first test of the state’s strict new cybersecurity regulation. That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 20:47:11 +0000
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.
Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 15:00:00 +0000
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| You’ve discovered that your organization has been breached. Now what? Learn which steps to take in the immediate aftermath to limit the damage and preserve your company’s reputation. Categories: Tags: breachbusinessdata breachdata breachesinformationlearnobligationspreparations |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 15:00:00 +0000
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| You’ve discovered that your organization has been breached. Now what? Learn which steps to take in the immediate aftermath to limit the damage and preserve your company’s reputation. Categories: Tags: breachbusinessdata breachdata breachesinformationlearnobligationspreparations |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:13:03 +0000
For many years and until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. But new data suggests that over the past year, the economics of supply-and-demand have helped to double the average price fetched by card-not-present data, meaning cybercrooks now have far more incentive than ever to target e-commerce stores.
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