Latest News: Data Breaches

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) has reported a significant data breach. The breach occurred in February due to a successful phishing attack that compromised roughly two dozen employees’ email accounts, which then led to the exposure of sensitive personal and health

UnitedHealth Group has acknowledged that a recent ransomware attack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare led to a massive data breach, affecting a "substantial proportion of people in America." The breach, one of the most significant in American healthcare history, resulted in the theft of sensitive

Cherry Health, a Michigan-based healthcare provider, revealed that a ransomware attack was responsible for a previously disclosed data breach. The breach compromised the personal and financial information of 184,372 victims, mostly from Michigan. The incident itself took place on December 21,

Cisco Duo recently announced the theft of SMS MFA logs for its service, which resulted from a breach affecting a third-party telephony provider. This incident, occurring on April 1, 2024, led to unauthorized access to sensitive customer data, including phone numbers, carriers, and metadata.

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 700k documents belonging to Australia’s largest smoke alarm installation and service provider. The exposed database contained 762,856 documents and totaled

Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA), a Boston consulting firm, experienced a data breach that exposed the Medicare information of 341,650 individuals. Originally detected on May 30, 2023, the breach resulted from a sophisticated cyberattack targeting sensitive data. Notifications regarding

Change Healthcare, an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group, is once again grappling with a ransomware threat. This development follows a recent incident where UnitedHealth Group allegedly shelled out $22 million to the Alphv/BlackCat gang to resolve a previous ransomware attack, as detailed in an

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password-protected database that contained names, phone numbers, and email addresses of nearly 300,000 taxi passengers in the UK and Ireland. The records belonged to Dublin-based iCabbi, a dispatch and fleet

Over 14 million internet browser cookies linked to UK consumers have been leaked onto the dark web. A recent study from NordVPN revealed the leak. This disclosure is part of a larger global issue, with more than 54 billion cookies found leaked worldwide, impacting users in 244

On the 1st of February 2024, the popular survey platform, SurveyLama, suffered a data breach, compromising 4.4 million users’ information. The information implicated in the breach includes users’ email addresses, names, passwords, and more. The creator of Have I Been Pwned, Troy Hunt, was