Privacy

Websites around the world are being impacted by a new widespread data extortion scheme by Team Montesano claiming to have compromised their servers and asking $2,500 to prevent data leaks, BleepingComputer reports.

As lawsuits emerge against Meta and healthcare providers amid reports of Pixel data scraping on hospital sites, patients and the public cry foul on using a tool rife for privacy violations.

The healthcare breach settlement between Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and patients affected by an insider wrongdoing incident requires the hospital to make security program improvements.

Medibank, Australia's largest health insurance provider, suffered a ransomware attack after a hacker used compromised high-level credentials to access customers’ personal information.

HealthITSecurity reports that Texas-based St. Luke's Health has disclosed experiencing a third-party data breach involving consulting services vendor Adelanto Healthcare Ventures, which has impacted 16,906 patients.

Threat actors could exploit Experian's knowledge-based verification offering Precise ID to facilitate partial Social Security number leaks, according to CyberScoop.

SecurityWeek reports that major label printing firm Multi-Color Corporation has been hit by a cyberattack, which may have compromised the personal data of its current and former employees.