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Latest News: Data Breaches

The Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) has issued a warning regarding a significant data breach involving Medicaid healthcare information. This breach comes as part of a series of attacks orchestrated by the Cl0p ransomware gang, with reports indicating that the gang stands to gain

Keira Waddell Published on 15th August 2023

Over the course of a year, vpnMentor deployed a honeypot of open servers containing fake personal data to lure outside actors, analyze their behavior, and record what happens once a server is left open without encryption or other safeguards. This gave us near-real-time data on hackers' activity,

vpnMentor Research Team Published on 14th August 2023

The UK Electoral Commission has disclosed a massive cybersecurity breach that exposed the personal data of an estimated 40 million UK voters. The breach, which began in August 2021, remained undetected until October 2022. The compromised data includes full names, email addresses, home addresses,

Keira Waddell Published on 11th August 2023

On Friday, the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) made an announcement regarding a data breach. The department detected this breach on June 19th and have since been collaborating with external specialists to manage the situation. Those impacted include people who attended public higher

Husain Parvez Published on 10th August 2023

Hackers exploiting a vulnerability in the corporate file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer have stolen protected health information belonging to Oregon citizens. The hackers accessed sensitive patient data, including names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, email and mailing addresses, and member

Keira Waddell Published on 8th August 2023

JumpCloud, a US-based identity and access management firm, recently made a disclosure regarding unauthorized access to its systems by a North Korean nation-state actor. The breach occurred a month ago and involved a spear-phishing attack against a targeted group of customers. The incident was

Keira Waddell Published on 23rd July 2023

Cl0p, the Russian cybercrime group responsible for the recent MOVEit hack, has continued to add to its list of alleged victims. Several new entities have been added, including public and private companies, state and local governments, universities, and other organizations. As part of its malicious

Husain Parvez Published on 21st July 2023

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained approximately 2.3 million records. Upon further investigation, it became clear that these records were associated with multiple dating applications contained in a

Jeremiah Fowler Published on 17th July 2023

HCA, a prominent US healthcare company, has recently announced an alarming data breach that may have affected approximately 11 million patients. The disclosure followed an incident where a cybercriminal posted a message on a well-known cybercrime forum asserting possession of the pilfered data and

Keira Waddell Published on 14th July 2023

Last week, a notorious group of cyber criminals, known as ALPHV or BlackCat, made an announcement on their website declaring their successful acquisition of 70 terabytes of internal documents from the Barts Health NHS Trust. The predominantly Russian-speaking gang has issued a serious ultimatum,

Husain Parvez Published on 12th July 2023