Data Security

In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan, the senators noted that Hyundai and Honda had received more than $1 million and over $25,000, respectively, for selling vehicle data to data broker Verisk.

Infiltration of Michigan Medicine's employee email accounts on May 23 and 29 enabled the exfiltration of individuals' names, birthdates, addresses, medical record numbers, diagnostic and treatment details, and health insurance information, as well as the Social Security numbers of four patients.

While the exfiltrated data was claimed to contain two million records of users linked to firms leveraging Bullhorn, such information was noted by Bullhorn to have been obtained from a third party that integrated with the firm and has not impacted its systems or data.

Information exposed by the misconfigured ClickBalance database included API keys, access tokens, secret keys, tax identification numbers, and bank account numbers, as well as more than 381,000 email addresses.

Included in the leaked database were BreachForums 1.0 members' user IDs, login names, email addresses, registration IP addresses, and last used IP addresses.

We can keep data secure, but we have to overcome perception and cultural issues and develop standards and more effective tools.

Threat actors behind the attack discovered on April 13 were able to exfiltrate 6.5 TB of data, including names, birthdates, contact details, addresses, individual healthcare identifiers, Medicare numbers, and prescription information from customers who used the service between March 2019 and November 2023.