October 10, 2024 at 11:04PM Star Health, an Indian health insurance provider, confirmed a cyber attack exposing over 30 million client records, initially stating no data breaches. A hacker named “xenZen” claimed to have acquired the data from Star Health’s CISO. The company is pursuing legal action and conducting a forensic investigation alongside authorities. ### … Read more
August 28, 2024 at 06:54AM Young Consulting, a software solutions provider, has notified over 950,000 individuals of a data breach compromising their personal information. The incident was discovered on April 13, prompting an investigation with the assistance of a cybersecurity forensics firm. The company is now offering impacted individuals one year of free credit monitoring … Read more
May 20, 2024 at 08:27AM WebTPA Employer Services, based in Irving, Texas, experienced a data breach affecting 2.4 million individuals’ personal information. The breach occurred between April 18 and April 23, 2023, and compromised names, contact information, dates of birth, insurance details, and Social Security numbers. Fortunately, financial and health data was not affected. WebTPA … Read more
March 29, 2024 at 07:18AM Point32Health, the second-largest health insurer in Massachusetts, reported a ransomware attack in April 2023 resulting in the theft of personal information from over 2.8 million individuals. The stolen data includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical information. The company is providing affected individuals with credit monitoring and identity protection … Read more
February 26, 2024 at 10:21AM UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Change Healthcare experienced a cyberattack on February 21, allegedly by a state-sponsored threat actor. This prompted a nationwide prescription processing outage as over 100 applications were affected. Change Healthcare is actively working to restore its impacted systems and has not reported a significant impact on its financial … Read more
February 12, 2024 at 02:19PM Some Dutch health insurers were reported to demand breast cancer patients to submit photos of their breasts before reconstructive surgery, despite a government ban. Notably, the insurers have been losing the sensitive images, leading to privacy breaches and patient distress. The Health Minister has intervened, mandating the photos to be … Read more