The Premera Blue Cross data breach lawsuit, which alleges that due to Premera's practices, cyberattackers were able to gain access to the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, protected health information, telephone numbers, and the names of employers, has been settled.
A new report from Juniper Research found that the cost of data breaches will rise from $3 trillion each year to more than $5 trillion in 2024, an average annual growth of 11%.
The global gaming phenomenon Fortnite, and more than 250 million users, are being targeted by a new ransomware auto-denominated “Syrk,” built with tools available on the internet, according to researchers at cloud security specialists, Cyren.
Bayamon Medical Center and the Puerto Rico Women and Children's Hospital have suffered a ransomware attack that involved personal information of the hospital's patients.
Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) is notifying approximately 9,900 individuals of a data breach incident involving MGH’s Department of Neurology in connection with some of its research programs.
Federal agencies endured 31,107 cybersecurity incidents in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, a 12-percent decrease over the 35,277 incidents that agencies reported in FY 2017.
Further investigation on Paige A. Thompson, the hacker accused of causing the Capital One data breach, has determined that Capital One wasn’t her only victim. She appears to have stolen sensitive data from more than 30 other companies.
After MongoDB database was left open, containing 700,000 customer records, Choice Hotels, a hospitality giant, fell victim to hackers this week due to MongoDB's data breach.
More than 3,800 data breaches were reported from January through June 30, exposing over 4.1 billion records, according to the 2019 MidYear Data Breach Quickview Report.
