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UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months
Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned healthtech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data…
Cannabis company Stiiizy says hackers accessed customers’ ID documents
Popular Los Angeles-based cannabis brand Stiiizy has confirmed that hackers accessed reams of sensitive customer data,…
Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages
Russian internet provider Nodex said it was in the process of restoring its systems after a…
Edtech giant PowerSchool says hackers accessed personal data of students and teachers
Education technology giant PowerSchool has told customers that it experienced a “cybersecurity incident” that allowed hackers…
Casio says hackers stole personal data of 8,500 people during October ransomware attack
Japanese electronics giant Casio has confirmed that the personal data of almost 8,500 individuals was stolen…
UN aviation agency confirms hacker breached recruitment database to access thousands of records
The United Nations’ aviation agency has confirmed that a hacker accessed thousands of records after compromising…
Washington sues T-Mobile over 2021 data breach that spilled 79 million customer records
The U.S. state of Washington has sued T-Mobile over allegations the phone giant failed to secure…
Chinese government hackers reportedly targeted US Treasury’s sanctions office during December cyberattack
Chinese government hackers targeted the U.S. Treasury’s highly sensitive sanctions office during a December cyberattack, according…
These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024
For the past few years, TechCrunch has looked back at some of the worst, badly handled…
Ransomware attack on health giant Ascension hits 5.6 million patients
A May ransomware attack on Ascension, a U.S. healthcare giant with more than 140 hospitals and…
Tracker firm Hapn spilling names of thousands of GPS tracking customers
GPS tracking firm Hapn is exposing the names of thousands of its customers due to a…
Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over security failings that led to medical data breach of over 100 million Americans
The U.S. state of Nebraska has sued the healthtech giant Change Healthcare over a series of…
Texas medical school says hackers stole sensitive health data of 1.4 million individuals
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center confirmed hackers accessed the personal and sensitive health data…
Called your doctor after-hours? ConnectOnCall hackers may have stolen your medical data
ConnectOnCall is alerting almost a million individuals whose personal and health information was stolen in a…