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Cyber ​​attack: Barmer informs its customers 
June 26, 2023
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A few days ago, BARMER Krankenkasse announced that one of its IT service providers had already been attacked on May 31, 2023. According to an internal letter, data from the users of a bonus program has probably been leaked. It will be further investigated. Although the BARMER homepage talks about an attack on a security gap at an IT service provider, the question of data leakage is still being examined. The security gap was probably closed immediately and there was never a connection to the BARMER IT environment. The authorities have been informed of the incident. It all sounds exactly like...

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Microsoft Azure: 65.000 customer data freely available
23 October 2022
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SOCRadar found that 65.000 pieces of sensitive customer data became public due to a misconfigured Microsoft Azure Server. The leak includes Proof-of-Execution (PoE) and Statement of Work (SoW) documents, user information, product orders/offers, project details, PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data, and documents that may reveal intellectual property. SOCRadar's built-in cloud security module monitors public buckets to detect any exposure of customer data. Among the many public buckets discovered, six contained large-scale information for more than 150.000 companies in 123 different countries. The leaks are collectively dubbed BlueBleed by SOCRadar to reflect the information around them...

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Cyber ​​attack on Optus: Millions of customer data stolen
2 October 2022
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Cyber ​​attack on Optus: Millions of customer data stolen

On September 22, the Australian telecommunications company Optus fell victim to a cyber attack. The attacker captured millions of customer data. Optus is Australia's second largest telecommunications company with 9,8 million customers. How many customers are affected and to what extent is still being determined. According to media reports, such as The Guardian, 2,8 million customers are affected to a greater extent. Information that may have been disclosed includes names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and — for a subset of customers — addresses and identification document numbers such as driver’s license or passport numbers, like Optus on its…

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Energy supplier Entega hacked – data is on the dark web
July 25, 2022
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ENTEGA IT subsidiary COUNT+CARE GmbH & Co. KG was attacked back in June, the system data was encrypted with ransomware and a lot of customer data was stolen. According to Entega, a ransom in the high tens of millions was demanded, which was not paid. Well, in July 2022, much of the customer data can be found on the dark web, as threatened. According to experts, the APT group "Black Cat" is at work here. Cyber ​​criminals who attacked the ENTEGA IT subsidiary COUNT+CARE GmbH & Co. KG on the second weekend in June transferred personal data from ENTEGA customers, employees and business partners to the so-called…

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