Privacy

BleepingComputer reports that the Colorado Department of Higher Education has been impacted by a significant data breach following a ransomware attack in June.

TechCrunch reports that major travel technology firm Mondee has leaked sensitive customer data through an exposed Oracle cloud-based database, which it has since secured.

Pennsylvania's Allegheny County, Harris Health Systems, Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital have disclosed experiencing health data breaches as a result of the widespread Cl0p ransomware attack involving the exploitation of a vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer app, HealthITSecurity reports.

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Automakers selling connected vehicles with data-mining functionality are poised to have their privacy practices reviewed by the California Privacy Protection Agency, making it the first review of such kind in the U.S., reports TechCrunch.

Up to 612,000 Medicare beneficiaries were noted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to potentially have had their data compromised following the hack of federal contractor Maximus involving the widespread exploitation of a vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer app, according to FedScoop.

The FBI has been sought by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to launch an investigation into the cyberattack against Tampa General Hospital in May, which resulted in the compromise of data from 1.2 million patients, HealthITSecurity reports.