Breach

The major USAID contractor says unauthorized access continued up to 25 days after the intrusion was first detected.

Most of the exposed employee records belonged to Bank of America, followed by U.S. multinational conglomerate Koch, Finnish multinational telecommunications firm Nokia, and global real estate and investment management services provider JLL, a report from Atlas Privacy showed.

Here are four lessons learned – and four takeaways from the Finastra breach.

Bank of Uganda, the country's central bank, was confirmed to have its accounts compromised in a recent cyberattack but Ugandan Minister of State for Finance Henry Musasizi emphasized the incident to not be as severe as initially communicated by the media, which noted the theft of up to $17 million.

In a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, OPPC disclosed that infiltration of its systems resulted in the exfiltration of individuals' names, residence details, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, medical record numbers, and prescription information although there has been no evidence to suggest misuse of the compromised data.

In settling the two breach cases, the auto insurers also agreed to deploy cybersecurity best practices.

More than 116,000 New York residents had their driver's license numbers compromised from Geico's systems following the exploitation of its apps' pre-fill functionality and Application Programming Interface, as well as fraudulent policy purchases and claims filing, beginning November 2020, with the insurer only resolving its systems vulnerabilities by March 2021.

Blue Yonder — a Panasonic subsidiary that also counts Amway, Dole, Gap, Microsoft, Ford, and Nestle as some of its customers — disclosed that its incident response efforts have been advancing amid an ongoing investigation.