Here’s your Cyber Security Incidents Update for wk13 2024
(a once-a-week on Monday glimpse into just a fraction of the Cyber Security events of the previous week to inform regarding the depth and breadth of the incidents world-wide)
-Organisation
⦿ The Big Issue, a street newspaper known for providing homeless people with a legitimate income by paying them as vendors to distribute the magazine
-Data compromised
⦿ Confidential data including files related to commercial and personnel operations
-Organisation
⦿ The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care brand of Point32Health, Massachusetts, USA
-Data compromised
⦿ Names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance account information, financial account information, medical history, diagnoses, and treatment information of 2.86 MILLION people
-Organisation
⦿ The city of St. Cloud, Florida, USA (the latest in a string if incidents in Florida)
-Data compromised
⦿ Not known at this time but many city services were affected including only In-person cash-only payments for Parks and Recreation events and services being accepted
One piece of good news 👍:
(sorry, failed on this one this time ☹️)
One final note:
(an update on last week's note about the AT&T hack/not hack)
In a classic PR ploy of dumping bad information on a Friday afternoon, although AT&T chose the Easter weekend, it turns out the mysterious data that AT&T had repeatedly denied had originated from them and or that their systems had been breached was indeed AT&T's data
AT&T is still saying there is no indication their systems were breached (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence) but it has now confirmed that the leaked data belongs to 73 million current and former customers
(and a second update on an item from last week)
The NHS Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, incident where Data compromised was Not known...
The data appears to include patients’ health records such as letters and emails exchanges involving doctors and GPs from clinics and hospitals across the country