Oracle’s healthcare subsidiary, Oracle Health, has suffered a data breach, potentially exposing customers’ sensitive data, the company told some of its customers. While Oracle has so far declined to publicly acknowledge the data breach and a separate one that came to light last week, Oracle Health, in private letters sent to impacted customers, has said…
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Oracle Cloud breach may impact 140,000 enterprise customers
A threat actor has reportedly breached Oracle Cloud infrastructure, exfiltrating six million sensitive authentication records and potentially endangering more than 140,000 enterprise customers. The attacker is now demanding ransom payments while actively marketing the stolen data on underground forums, according to threat intelligence firm CloudSEK. Security researchers at CloudSEK’s XVigil team discovered the breach on…
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HPE’s sensitive data exposed in alleged IntelBroker hack
IntelBroker has struck again. This time, the notorious BreachForums bigwig, which has a long list of high-profile victims, including Europol, Cisco, and GE, has claimed to have breached IT giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The suspected Serbian-origin hacker is offering to sell on BreachForums, sensitive data allegedly stolen from HPE including product source codes and…
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The biggest data breach fines, penalties, and settlements so far
Sizable fines assessed for data breaches in recent years suggest that regulators are getting more serious about cracking down on organizations that don’t properly protect consumer data. Hit with a $ 1.3 billion fine for unlawfully transferring personal data from the European Union to the US, Meta tops the list of recent big-ticket sanctions, with…