LATEST POST
Big guns going after big guns: Firm Behind Big Tobacco Settlement Now Suing Deloitte Over RI Data Breach
Deloitte has already been sued over the breach involving Rhode Island benefits recipient data. But now there’s a bigger suit. GOLOCAL/Prov Rhode Island reports: The law firm that negotiated the $246 billion settlement with big tobacco is now suing Deloitte over the recent massive data breach in Rhode Island. In a 65-page complaint filed this week in […]
Personal information of Toronto District School Board students going back 4 decades may have been breached in PowerSchool incident
The PowerSchool breach that is giving school districts throughout the U.S. major headaches also affected school districts in Canada. The Toronto Star reports: Toronto’s public school board says personal information of its students dating back to 1985 may have been breached during a recent cybersecurity incident that affected many districts across North America. … The […]
FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year
Now we are first finding out how scary the Snowflake breach was for FBI agents and informants whose information may have been caught up in the AT&T downstream attack. Bloomberg reports: FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off […]
Russian couple on trial for large-scale ransomware attacks
Two Russians are on trial in Brussels for infecting tens of thousands of computers with ransomware and raking in more than 3 million euros. Belga News Agency reports: The couple allegedly used the highly malicious Crylock ransomware to remotely lock computer files and hold some 400,000 victims for ransom. Crylock first appeared in Belgium in […]
Cyber breach at SC credit union could threaten 240,000 people, documents say
MSN reports an update on a breach first reported by The Record. Confidential personal data of more than 240,000 people may have been stolen last year when a South Carolina credit union was hacked by a group called “Nitrogen,” according to a consumer affairs public disclosure notice. Ten lawsuits against the SRP Federal Credit Union […]
Wolf Haldenstein Data Breach Impacts 3,445, 537 people
Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is notifying more than 3.4 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a December 2023 data breach. Security Week reports: According to the firm, it discovered the incident after detecting suspicious activity on its network. Its investigation revealed that a threat actor accessed certain […]
Blue Yonder investigating Clop gang’s threat linked to exploited Cleo CVEs
The Cl0p gang that previously successfully attacked file transfer software platforms by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities is now starting to leak data from yet another campaign targeting file transfer software. This time, it’s CLEO. Cybersecurity Dive reports: Blue Yonder said it is investigating a threat after Clop listed the supply chain management company among nearly 60 […]
FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Alleged Lax Data Security for Its Website Hosting Services
Proposed order will prohibit GoDaddy from misleading customers about its security protections and require it to establish a robust information security program The following is a press release from the Federal Trade Commission: