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Latitude Financial Services Data Breach Impacts 300,000 Customers

Latitude Financial Services says the personal information of 300,000 customers was stolen in a cyberattack.

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Hawaii Health Department Says Death Records Compromised in Recent Data Breach

The Hawaii DOH says roughly 3,400 death records were accessed via the compromised account of a former employee.

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Congress Members Warned of Significant Health Data Breach

House and Senate members informed that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in DC Health Link breach.

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Acer Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Stolen Data

Acer said one of its document servers was hacked after a hacker claimed to have stolen 160 Gb of data from the company.

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LastPass Says DevOps Engineer Home Computer Hacked

LastPass DevOp engineer’s home computer hacked and implanted with keylogging malware as part of a sustained cyberattack that exfiltrated corporate data from the cloud storage resources.

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Media Giant News Corp Discloses New Details of Data Breach

News Corp says a threat group, previously linked to the Chinese government, had access to its systems for two years before the breach was discovered.

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Australian Man Sentenced for Scam Related to Optus Hack

Australian authorities this week announced the sentencing of a Sydney man for attempting to blackmail Optus customers using leaked data stolen during a September 2022 data breach at the wireless carrier.

The Optus hack resulted in the theft of personal information belonging to 9.8 million customers, including names, birth dates, physical and email addresses, and phone numbers. For 2.1 million customers, numbers associated with identification documents were also compromised.

The incident was disclosed on September 22, with the attackers leaking the personal information of roughly 10,000 individuals a few days later.

The attackers demanded a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, threatening to release more of the stolen information each day until a payment was made.

On October 6, the Australian Federal Police announced the arrest of a Sydney man who attempted to use the leaked data to extort money from individuals impacted by the data breach.

The man, now 20, sent text messages to more than 90 Optus customers, demanding that they transfer $2,000 AUD (roughly $1,300 USD) to a bank account in the name of the scammer.

The youngster pleaded guilty on November 8 to two “counts of using a telecommunications network with intent to commit a serious offense […], where the serious offense is blackmail”, the Australian authorities say.

The individual was sentenced to 18-month community correction order and 100 hours of community service.

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Gem Security Gets $11 Million Seed Investment for Cloud Incident Response Platform

Israeli venture group Team8 has bankrolled an $11 million seed-stage investment in Gem Security, a startup with ambitious plans in the cloud threat detection and incident response space.

Gem Security, based in Tel Aviv, emerged from stealth Wednesday with technology that promises to give corporate security teams a practical way to manage threat detection, investigation and response in cloud deployments.

The company said its product supports all major infrastructure platforms — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes — and integrates with identity providers, source code repositories and secrets managers, leveraging the additional data for context analysis.

Gem Security and its investors are betting that there’s a growing market for enabling cloud security operations as attack surfaces expand exponentially with enterprise digital transformation activities.

“The adoption of cloud infrastructure is increasing and diversifying the attack surface for organizations. 90% of all organizations use more than one cloud provider,” Gem Security said in a note announcing the funding.

“The expansion in attack surface is rarely paralleled with coverage by detection and response initiatives, leaving organizations unaware of a variety of threat vectors. 79% of companies have experienced at least one cloud data breach in the last 18 months, with 43% of companies reporting ten or more,” the company added.

While there is no shortage of products for detection and response, Gem Security is arguing that legacy approaches fall short of providing tooling for the cloud era. Today, the company says companies must work continuously on preparation, detection, investigation and response to cloud data threats.

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820k Impacted by Data Breach at Zacks Investment Research

Stock research firm Zacks Investment Research is in the process of notifying customers that their personal information was compromised in a data breach.

Founded in 1978, Zacks Investment Research is one of the largest providers of stock research, analysis and recommendations for firms in the US.

Earlier this week, the company informed the Maine Attorney General’s Office that the personal information of 820,000 individuals was compromised after a third-party gained unauthorized access to its systems.

The data breach, the firm says, was discovered in December 2022, but the unauthorized access occurred sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.

The notification letter to the impacted customers, a copy of which was submitted to the Maine Attorney General, reveals that the unauthorized third-party had access to an older database containing information about customers who had signed up for a Zacks product between November 1999 and February 2005.

The compromised personal information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and passwords for Zacks.com.

“We have no reason to believe any customer credit card information, any other customer financial information, or any other customer personal information was accessed,” the company says.

Zacks says it has implemented security measures to stop the breach and that it has reset the passwords for the impacted accounts.

“When you log into your Zacks account, you will be prompted to change your password. You should also change the password for all other online accounts for which you used the same e-mail address and password as your Zacks account,” the company tells users.

Zacks told the Maine Attorney General that it will begin notifying impacted customers on January 27.

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GoTo Says Hackers Stole Encrypted Backups, MFA Settings

IT management software firm GoTo on Tuesday said an unidentified threat actor stole encrypted backups and an encryption key for a portion of that data during a 2022 breach that also affected its LastPass affiliate.

GoTo chief executive Paddy Srinivasan confirmed the security breach was far worse than originally reported and included the theft of account usernames, salted and hashed passwords, a portion of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) settings, as well as some product settings and licensing information.

In a notice posted online, Srinivasan the encrypted backups were related to multiple GoTo-owned software products:

“Our investigation to date has determined that a threat actor exfiltrated encrypted backups from a third-party cloud storage service related to the following products: Central, Pro, join.me, Hamachi, and RemotelyAnywhere.

We also have evidence that a threat actor exfiltrated an encryption key for a portion of the encrypted backups. The affected information, which varies by product, may include account usernames, salted and hashed passwords, a portion of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) settings, as well as some product settings and licensing information.

In addition, while Rescue and GoToMyPC encrypted databases were not exfiltrated, MFA settings of a small subset of their customers were impacted.”

Srinivasan said the company has no evidence of exfiltration affecting any other GoTo products or any of GoTo’s production systems.

Even though all account passwords were salted and hashed in accordance with best practices, Srinivasan said GoTo plans to reset the passwords of affected users and/or reauthorize MFA settings where applicable.

“In addition, we are migrating their accounts onto an enhanced Identity Management Platform, which will provide additional security with more robust authentication and login-based security options,” the GoTo CEO said.

In August last year, GoTo affiliate LastPass disclosed a data breach that included the theft of source code and proprietary technical information. In November, GoTo said it was also affected by that hack, which is linked to an unnamed third-party cloud security vendor.

In a worrisome update in late December, the password management outfit admitted the hackers behind the August breach stole a massive stash of customer data, including password vault data that could be exposed by brute-forcing or guessing master passwords.

LastPass said the hackers broke into its network in August and used information from that hack to return and hijack customer data that included company names, end-user names, billing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and the IP addresses from which customers were accessing the LastPass service.

In addition, the unidentified actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from an encrypted storage container.

The exposed container contained both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.

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