Breach

This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes a number of email and vendor-related incidents, led by 13 new filings from anesthesia practices with HHS over a “data security incident.”

SecurityWeek reports that the State Bar of Georgia has confirmed the compromise of member and employee data following a BitLocker ransomware attack in April.

Nearly 300K Toyota customers impacted by data leak Toyota Motor Corporation has warned that 296,019 customers between December 2017 and September 15, 2022 may have had their data compromised after a portion of the source code of their T-Connect connectivity app has exposed on GitHub, according to BleepingComputer.

In the wake of the Uber case, the industry has to do more to protect CISOs and foster tighter collaboration between the security community and law enforcement.

BleepingComputer reports that Taiwanese chip manufacturer ADATA has rejected being recently attacked by the RansomHouse gang following the threat operation's claims that it had stolen 1TB of documents from a cyberattack this year, with samples of allegedly stolen files leaked on its group site.

Chinese companies HeyMods, HeyWhatsApp, and Highlight Mobi have been charged by Meta for allegedly developing and utilizing unofficial WhatsApp Android apps to facilitate the theft of more than 1 million WhatsApp accounts since May, according to BleepingComputer.

Ariz. city breach impacts over 123K individuals' data More than 123,500 individuals had their personal data compromised following a data breach in the City of Tucson, Arizona, reports SecurityWeek.