Tag: Data breaches
The telecom firm made the disclosure as an extortion group reportedly claimed Frontier as a data theft victim. Frontier Communications revealed that a previously disclosed cyberattack, which occurred in mid-April, exposed the data of more than 750,000 customers. The Dallas-based telecom firm made the disclosure as an extortion group reportedly claimed Frontier as a data…
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The change reportedly could be disclosed soon as the company’s optional multifactor authentication has come under scrutiny. Snowflake reportedly plans to switch over to having MFA turned on by default for users of its cloud data platform, amid a number of data theft attacks linked to compromised Snowflake accounts. CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy (pictured) told Runtime…
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A report indicated that Advance Auto Parts is allegedly the latest victim in a wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. Advance Auto Parts is reportedly the latest victim in a wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers, which are believed to be utilizing stolen passwords. Separately, a report from TechCrunch highlighted the…
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As the industry has gotten better at locking down endpoint devices such as laptops, threat actors are finding new ways to infiltrate an organization’s systems—and they’re seeing more and more success. From the widespread compromise of Ivanti VPNs to a string of cyberattacks involving vulnerabilities in on-premises firewalls, this year has seen threat actors increasingly…
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Live Nation disclosed that its Ticketmaster subsidiary was impacted by ‘unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment.’ Live Nation disclosed Friday that its Ticketmaster subsidiary was impacted by malicious activity in a cloud database operated by a third party, which resulted in the theft of company data. CRN reached out to Ticketmaster for further…
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‘While we expect this process will take time to complete, we are making progress and systems are being restored in a coordinated manner at each of our care sites,’ Ascension said in an update over the weekend. Days after a reported ransomware attack paralyzed Ascension health system, shutting down its electronic health records system and…
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“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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The company says there’s ‘no evidence that the threat actor accessed the contents of users’ accounts’ in the breach of its Dropbox Sign service. Dropbox disclosed that its eSignature service, Dropbox Sign, was compromised and authentication data such as hashed passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens for some users were accessed. Certain customer information and…
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As UnitedHealth’s CEO gets grilled by a U.S. Senate committee, the folly of acquiring a company with outdated cybersecurity practices is on display. Among the many lessons from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, one that’s come into clearer focus this week goes something like this: Companies that ignore cybersecurity as part of an M&A process, do…
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