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Hacker Allegedly Stole 153 Million Driver’s Licenses, Is Now Selling Them
PC Mag reports that a hacker has been trying to sell access to over 153 million driver’s licenses from the US and Canada, including the IDs for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an FBI assistant director: The hacker created a site called Nexus to offer the IDs, according to cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, who learned about […]
Hackers could plunge Britain into darkness in less than two minutes, report warns
When you read the headline, you might hope it’s just a clickbait headline, but it may not be. The European reports that hackers could plunge Britain into darkness in less than two minutes by targeting the battery storage systems becoming increasingly critical to the stability of the electricity grid. A new analysis puts the chance […]
Dropbox stock falls after Bloomberg reports data breach
Investing.com reports that Dropbox Inc shares fell 1.8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that hackers breached thousands of user accounts and accessed data stored on the cloud-storage platform. At one point, shares had fallen as much as 6.6% in postmarket trading. According to Bloomberg: Some Dropbox users received an email from the company on […]
Montana AG, 15 others probe OpenAI AI model breach, hacks
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general launched an investigation into OpenAI over potential violations of consumer protection and data-privacy laws following a data breach by one of the company’s experimental models this summer. In July, OpenAI released an experimental artificial intelligence model without proper safeguards that hacked into several computer […]
CareCloud Data Breach Exposes Medical Records, Social Security Numbers of 3.75 Million
WOWO reports that more than 3.75 million people were affected by a data breach involving CareCloud, a healthcare technology firm used by medical providers. The breach was initially reported to the SEC in March as having involved one of the firm’s six EHR environments on March 16 for 8 hours. That was later revised to […]
Boston Scientific provides update on recent cyberattack
On August 25, Boston Scientific discovered a cybersecurity incident was affecting some information technology systems, resulting in a network outage and disruption to the medical device firm’s operations. The incident impacted access to certain operating systems and business applications, including the ability to process and ship customer orders. Since then, the firm has provided daily […]
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP mastermind
“TeamPCP” has been arrested in Australia. The leader’s arrest had been widely anticipated across online channels and discussions, and the leader had even said he expected to be arrested and might just turn himself in. Now The Register reports: The Australian city of Perth is by some measures the world’s most isolated major metropolis, but […]
ShinyHunters claims McKesson data breach exposing 284 million patient records
CyberInsider reports that ShinyHunters claims to have hit a major healthcare software provider, and that hundreds of millions of records have been acquired, although the number of unique patients is not yet determined. McKesson has acknowledged that it is investigating the claims. Read more at CyberInsider.