The right customer data, in the right hands, can have a transformative impact on businesses. But in the wrong hands, the same sensitive information can be leveraged by bad actors and cybercriminals with catastrophic and increasingly costly outcomes. “If you think about what bad guys...
What do Rite Aid, Disney, and Squarespace all have in common? The fact that, in just the past few days, they each reported cyber breaches resulting in the theft of sensitive information. Rite Aid announced Monday (July 15) that in June, an unknown third party...
The interconnected global operating landscape has never held more opportunity for businesses. Or more threats. Gaining a deeper understanding of the threat landscape and the top tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of ransomware gangs is increasingly crucial for firms. News broke Friday (July 12) that...
AT&T said Friday (July 12) that records of calls and texts of nearly all its wireless customers and others using its network were stolen in a cybersecurity incident. The stolen records identify the telephone numbers with which the wireless numbers of AT&T or mobile virtual...
May 08, 2024
Eighty-two percent of eCommerce merchants experienced cyberattacks or data breaches in the last year, according to PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Fraud Management in Online Transactions. The study was based on surveys with 300 heads of payments or fraud departments from international eCommerce companies. It detailed the steps these merchants are taking to combat fraud and reduce customer churn. Fraud-related incidents can inflict pain […]
April 15, 2024
In today’s digitized operating environment, a business is only as good as its cyber defenses. And with Change Healthcare reportedly facing a new ransomware attack following an earlier massive breach in...
February 25, 2024
Last week’s data breach of United Health Group’s (UHG) prescription provider comes at a critical time in the digital transformation of connected healthcare. Just as evidence shows clinicians are seeing...
August 17, 2022
Healthcare is supposed to get us out of danger, not place us in harm’s way. The hard truth is that data breaches in the space are at historic levels, compromising...
July 12, 2024
AT&T said Friday (July 12) that records of calls and texts of nearly all its wireless customers and others using its network were stolen in a cybersecurity incident. The stolen records identify the telephone numbers with which the wireless numbers of AT&T or mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) using AT&T’s wireless network interacted between May […]
July 04, 2024
Health tech company HealthEquity has suffered a data breach, though unconnected to other recent attacks. The company revealed that attack in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this week, saying...
July 03, 2024
Millions of Apple’s smartphone and computer/laptop apps were reportedly exposed to a security breach. The breach could be used for potential supply chain attacks, ArsTechnica reported Wednesday (July 3), citing...
July 02, 2024
A patient affected by a “data security incident” involving Pennsylvania-based health system Geisinger has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company. Geisinger’s IT vendor, Microsoft-owned Nuance, determined that a former...
