Humana suffers ‘spoofing’ cyber attack on 2 of its major websites Humana.com and Go365.com
Humana Inc. is an American health Insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky. The company provides medical, dental, wellness and other health plans to over millions of members in the US.
Latest news reveals that Humana was recently targeted by a ‘sophisticated cyber spoofing attack’ that compromised the personal data of millions of its customers.
Humana Cyber attack was discovered on on June 3rd 2018 after detecting a significant number of unauthorized failed login attempts to access its two websites using foreign IP addresses. The attack attempted to gain access to a system using fake or stolen credentials.
Latest news reveals that Humana was recently targeted by a ‘sophisticated cyber spoofing attack’ that compromised the personal data of millions of its customers.
Humana Cyber attack was discovered on on June 3rd 2018 after detecting a significant number of unauthorized failed login attempts to access its two websites using foreign IP addresses. The attack attempted to gain access to a system using fake or stolen credentials.
To retaliate Humana Cyber attack, the firm on June 4th 2018 blocked the offending foreign Internet Protocol addresses from its websites.
The nature of the attack depicts that the crooks had a large database of user identifiers and corresponding passwords to gain unauthorized access to systems and networks. The credentials used by the attackers are expected to be stolen from earlier breaches or attacks on Humana or other entities. It may even have been obtained in a separate third party breach. The login credentials were however possibly old and the excessive number of login failures show that the ID and password combinations did not originate from Humana.
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The nature of the attack depicts that the crooks had a large database of user identifiers and corresponding passwords to gain unauthorized access to systems and networks. The credentials used by the attackers are expected to be stolen from earlier breaches or attacks on Humana or other entities. It may even have been obtained in a separate third party breach. The login credentials were however possibly old and the excessive number of login failures show that the ID and password combinations did not originate from Humana.
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