Nuance Communications was part of a massive Clop cyberattack campaign exploiting a flaw in MOVEit managed file transfer software, a third-party technology, that could have impacted more than a dozen of its customers. The company has started submitting notices of privacy breaches to states and has sent letters to more than 1,225,054 affected individuals telling them their personally identifiable and protected health information may have been stolen. WHY IT MATTERSOn September 15, Nuance filed with the Attorney General of California that it was a victim of a data breach involving a vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEit managed file transfer product. The vulnerability allowed hackers to gain unauthorized access to confidential information stored within Nuance's MOVEit environment between May 28 and May 29, the company said in a letter to affected patients posted on the California AG's website. The company provides software services that integrate with electronic healt
The company sent patients data breach notifications explaining that names, Social Security numbers and PHI may have been compromised as part of a global cyber campaign that has snared more than 2,000 organizations to date.
More ransomware and MOVEit attack numbers, and an attack on a Rust repository. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It's Wednesday, August 30th, 2023. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. A ransomware gang calling itself Ransomed has come up with a new brand: As of Monday they began