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HHS Says UnitedHealth Can Notify Patients of Data Breach

U.S. healthcare providers can ask UnitedHealth Group to notify people whose data was exposed during a hack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit in February, according to an update on the health department’s website. The news comes as a relief …

Live Nation Probing Ticketmaster Hack Amid User Data Leak Concerns

Live Nation Entertainment said on Friday it was investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on May 20, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year. In a filing with the …

Santander Flags Data Breach Hitting Some Clients, All Staff

Banco Santander SA said data managed by an external party was accessed without authorization, affecting information of clients and staff. “We recently became aware of an unauthorized access to a Santander database hosted by a third-party provider,” the Spanish lender …

Connecticut M&A Advisor Agrees to Pay $1.5M to Settle Data Breach Class Action

Merritt Healthcare Advisors, a Connecticut mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm for healthcare practices, has agreed to a $1.525 million settlement of a class action stemming from a 2022 data breach. The money will go into a fund to compensate …

UnitedHealth Says Hackers Possibly Stole Large Number of Americans’ Data

UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The intrusion at its Change …

US Cyber Agency Warns of Compromise at Sisense Data Firm

The US lead agency for federal cybersecurity is warning that Sisense Inc., a data analytics company, has suffered a compromise that could expose customer credentials and cryptographic secrets. Sisense provides AI-driven analytics to thousands of customers, according to the company’s …

AT&T Notifies Users of Data Breach, Resets Millions of Passcodes

AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online. The telecommunications giant said Saturday that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information such as Social Security numbers for about …

Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Computers of Georgia City Police and Medical Clinic

Robert Purbeck, also known as “Lifelock,” and “Studmaster,” who hacked into the computer servers of the police department of Newnan, Georgia and a medical clinic in Griffin, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of computer fraud and abuse, according …

Class Action Lawsuits Pile Up Over UnitedHealth Data Breach

UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions of people’s personal data from last month’s hack of Change Healthcare, its payment processing unit, with more lawsuits likely to …

Kansas’ Conrade Insurance Group Discloses Data Breach

Conrade Insurance Group this week reported a data breach upon identifying unusual activity in its email system. The Newton, Kansas-based insurance agency posted a Notice of data Event on its website stating an investigation determined that one employee email account …