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UnitedHealth Blamed ‘Nation-State’ Threat in Hack That Disrupted Pharmacy Orders

A cyberattack against a division of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has caused a nationwide outage of a computer network that’s used to transmit data between health-care providers and insurance companies, rendering some pharmacies unable to process prescriptions, according to the company …

Prudential Reports Unauthorized Access to Its Computer Systems

Prudential Financial has disclosed a hacker gained unauthorized access to its systems earlier this month. In a Feb. 13 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Prudential said that on Feb. 5 it detected a threat actor — believed …

Pennsylvania Courts’ Cyber Battle With an ‘Unknown Opponent’ Enters Third Day

Pennsylvania’s court system is in a “virtual battle with an unknown opponent” that attacked and shut down key portions of the courts’ online services last Sunday and then again on Tuesday after they had been restored. After the portions of …

EquiLend Restores Some Services After Cybersecurity Incident

Fintech firm EquiLend said on Friday some services, including trading and post-trading solutions, had been restored, more than a week after it suffered an outage due to unauthorized access to its systems. EquiLend, a company at the heart of securities …

Cloudflare Says State-Backed Hackers Tried to Burrow Into its Global Network

Internet firm Cloudflare said in a statement on Thursday that an advanced group of hackers tried to burrow deep into its global network late last year but were thwarted. The company, which did not identify the hackers, said in a …

Vans, Dickies Owner VF Corp: Data of 35.5M Consumers Stolen in Recent Cyberattack

Apparel and footwear company VF Corp. disclosed last week that the personal data of about 35.5 million consumers were stolen as part of a December 2023 cyberattack. According to a Jan. 18 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, …

Kansas Court System Seeks $2.6M to Recover from Cyberattack

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas court system needs at least $2.6 million in additional funds to recover from an October cyberattack that prevented the electronic filing of documents and blocked online access to records for weeks, the state’s top …

Retail Mortgage Lender loanDepot Struggles With Cyberattack

The U.S. retail mortgage lender loanDepot is struggling to recover from a cyberattack that impacted its loan processing and phone service. In a filing on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said data was encrypted by the …

Comcast’s Xfinity Reveals Data Breach Potentially Affecting Nearly 36 Million People

Comcast’s Xfinity has started notifying customers of a data breach that may have revealed information of nearly 36 million people, . Xfinity, Comcast’s brand for broadband, video and phone services, said in a notice that a routine cybersecurity exercise on …

Kansas Courts’ Computer Systems Coming Back Online Following Cyberattack

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The court system in Kansas has started bringing its computer system for managing cases back online, two months after a foreign cyberattack forced officials to shut it down along with public access to documents and other …