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Oscar Health Warns of Data Breach Involving Member Info
- Friday, 21 January 2022
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Oscar Health has begun notifying its members of a data breach involving their personal information. So reports Becker’s Hospital Review.
Read more...FlexBooker Data Breach Hits 3.7M Accounts
- Thursday, 13 January 2022
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FlexBooker, a provider of appointment scheduling services, has disclosed a data breach affecting 3.7 million accounts. So reports Bleeping Computer.
Read more...California Town’s Data Breach Exposes Police and Lending Records
- Thursday, 13 January 2022
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Grass Valley, Calif., has confirmed a wide-ranging data breach that affects anyone who had their details provided to the local police department as well as anyone who applied for a loan with the town’s loan department. So reports ZDNet.
Read more...Meta Falls Under Regulatory Scrutiny Over Child Privacy with Oculus
- Thursday, 13 January 2022
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Meta has come under the UK data watchdog’s crosshairs amid public criticisms that its Oculus Quest 2 device might breach British child-safety rules. So reports The Guardian.
Read more...Panasonic Admits Breach of Job Candidate Data in Cyberattack
- Thursday, 13 January 2022
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Panasonic has acknowledged that the personal data of job candidates and interns was stolen by hackers in a previously disclosed cyberattack. So reports TechCrunch.
Read more...Pac NW Chain McMenamins Loses Operations to Ransomware Attack
- Sunday, 09 January 2022
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McMenamins, a family-run dining and hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest, has been forced to shut down some operations due to a ransomware attack. So reports ThreatPost.
Read more...UScellular Billing-system Hack Compromises Customer Data
- Sunday, 09 January 2022
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UScellular has begun notifying about 400 affected customers that a hack of the mobile carrier’s billing system in December 2021 resulted in a data breach. So reports Bleeping Computer.
Read more...Florida Health System Suffers Data Breach Affecting 1.3 Million
- Sunday, 09 January 2022
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The Broward Health hospital system in Florida has warned more than 1.3 million patients and staff members of a data breach involving their personal information. So reports the HIPAA Journal.
Read more...Morgan Stanley Settles Data-breach Lawsuit for $60M
- Sunday, 09 January 2022
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Morgan Stanley has inked a $60 million settlement with about 15 million customers who claimed the firm twice failed to properly safeguard their personal information when it decommissioned data centers and computer systems. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Canada’s Desjardins Group Settles Data Breach Suit for $157M
- Sunday, 02 January 2022
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Desjardins Group, a Canadian financial services company, has agreed to pay up to C$201 million ($157.31 million) to end a lawsuit stemming from a 2019 data breach. So reports Reuters.
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