Both CalPERS and CalSTRS are agencies that manage retirement funds and health benefits for retired California teachers, government employees, and more types of public service employees. These organizations handle a huge amount of personal and financial data for teachers and other individuals, and they even handle pensions for them. That's why it's so upsetting to learn that both CalPERS and CalSTRS were impacted by a recent data breach.
Elon Musk's ascension isn't the first thing to cause waves of scams on Twitter, and it certainly won't be the last. On July 20th of 2022, data belonging to over 5 million Twitter users was put up for sale on the internet underground for $30,000. The FTC reported that we've experienced a recent "gold mine for scammers" and the April bump to a 10,000-character limit (for Twitter Blue) only makes things more interesting.
Fort Worth is the fifth largest city in the state of Texas and approximately the 12th largest in the United States. The city is home to over 900,000 people and maintains a staff of thousands of individuals. The state manages a substantial amount of data in its servers, including public and private information that could be harmful if taken and shared with people online. That's why we were worried when we noted the city was breached, and over 500,000 files were taken.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is a government organization that offers free or low-cost services to Idaho citizens to provide for their health and well-being. This includes things like Medicaid, food programs, and more. The organization is a government agency that manages a huge amount of data for different people.
Healthcare services offered by the government and private agencies took a serious hit this week with breaches against Johns Hopkins, Essen Health Care, Atrium Health at Wake Forest, and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Patients lost a significant amount of both personal and health information in this breach as a result. The Bank of NY Mellon was also a breach victim this week. Read below for the details.
Atrium Health is a major health services provider for primary care and specialty care at Wake Forest in North Carolina. The service provides care to thousands of individuals and manages data for all those people. Some of that data was recently lost to a data breach that's left patients, doctors, and staff members uncertain and concerned. The breach occurred quickly and created some issues that anyone relying on Atrium Health should be aware of.
The MOVEIt data breach continues to impact a number of both private and government groups across the US and Europe by exposing confidential data. With breaches like this becoming increasingly common, it can be easy to blame advanced persistent threat (APT) groups and other malicious actors; however, there is a valuable lesson to learn from the MOVEit breach: it is essential to be proactive about these threats, Not doing so may lead to a breach.
The Bank of NY Mellon is one of the largest financial institutions in the world and the largest custodian bank in the world. The company is based in 35 countries, manages $1.9 Trillion in assets, and generates more than $16 Billion in annual revenue. This mammoth bank just suffered from a data breach that exposed consumer data to the public. The data taken could result in identity theft issues and more. The Emerson Law Firm is currently investigating this data breach.
