Data Breaches

Aflac Life Insurance Japan, a subsidiary of insurance giant Aflac, on Tuesday announced that hackers stole the personal information of 4.38 million customers. The company’s systems were hacked on June 15, and the attackers accessed them several times until June 25, when the data breach was discovered, Aflac said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. “Upon identifying the unlawful access, Aflac Japan promptly took steps designed to contain the incident and…

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Canadian electricity provider London Hydro is investigating a data breach that potentially impacted the personal and account information of its customers. London Hydro is a local distribution company serving the City of London, Ontario. It serves roughly 170,000 residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial customers. On June 20, the electricity provider announced that hackers had broken into its systems and that customers’ data was likely accessed. “London Hydro and the appropriate authorities are currently investigating a…

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iRhythm, a health company specializing in wearable cardiac monitoring technology, has been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of information. The data breach was disclosed by iRhythm, known for its Zio wearable ECG monitor, in a Monday filing with the SEC. The company said it detected “unauthorized activity involving data maintained on certain third-party-hosted business applications” on June 8. iRhythm noted that the attack involved social engineering, but the targeted application has…

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7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience store chain, has confirmed suffering a data breach after the notorious ShinyHunters hacker group claimed to have stolen information from its systems. The company has started sending out security incident notices revealing that an intrusion into 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents was detected on April 8.  According to a notification submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, unspecified personal information has been compromised.  The exposed information was provided…

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Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and universities into turmoil. Elizabeth Polo was in a creative writing class at the University of Maryland late Thursday afternoon when a classmate shouted, “Canvas got hacked.” A message from a hacking collective flashed on her computer screen. “Our whole class just like was…

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The RansomHouse ransomware group has taken credit for the recent attack on the cybersecurity firm Trellix. The Trellix hack came to light this week when the company announced on its website that part of its source code repository had been breached. “Based on our investigation to date, we have found no evidence that our source code release or distribution process was affected, or that our source code has been exploited,” the company stated. No other…

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