Privacy

Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, which runs 180 hospitals and 2,300 healthcare sites across the United States, said the breach occurred through the compromise of an external storage location for an unnamed software system used to automate the formatting of emails.

Huntress researchers say Cl0p has used a web shell to copy and exfiltrate data, but no full network compromise has been executed via ransomware.

HR management solutions provider Ultimate Kronos Group, or Kronos, has reached a $6 million settlement with healthcare organizations and other organizations across different industries impacted by a data breach that followed a ransomware attack against its Kronos Private Cloud offering in December 2021, HealthITSecurity reports.

Bangladesh data breach exposes millions' personal information TechCrunch reports that millions of Bangladeshi citizens had their personal data, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and national ID numbers, exposed by a government website.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures breach hits over 28K Over 28,000 individuals were confirmed by major Pepsi-Cola beverage manufacturer and distributor Pepsi Bottling Ventures to have had their data stolen as a result of a compromise of its IT systems, reports SecurityWeek.

U.S. child- and family-oriented pay TV channel Nickelodeon has confirmed the legitimacy of the major data leak impacting its animation department that was initially reported late last month but noted that some of the exposed data were decades old, BleepingComputer reports.

Numerous U.S. students had their sensitive data, including sexual assault, parental abuse, and psychiatric hospitalization details, exposed following ransomware attacks against schools across the country, according to The Associated Press.