NextGov reports: The Congressional Budget Office, Capitol Hill’s nonpartisan accounting service that delivers financial assessments for legislation, was accessed in a hack potentially tied to a foreign hacker group. “The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to […]
A breach affecting South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, KT, continues to have ramifications for the carrier. Chosun Biz reports: The joint public-private investigation team (hereafter, the investigation team) operated by the Ministry of Science and ICT announced interim findings on the KT hacking and breach incident on the 6th. The investigation team said that, […]
The Economic Times reports: Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released its fifth annual State of Ransomware in Retail report, highlighting how visibility gaps across retail networks continue to leave businesses vulnerable. The survey of 361 IT and security leaders across 16 countries found that 46% of ransomware attacks in the sector originated from previously unknown security […]
Bank Info Security reports: Proposed federal class action litigation is piling up against Conduent Business Solutions following its recent public disclosure that an October 2024 hacking incident potentially compromised personal and health information of more than 10.5 million people. As of Tuesday, at least nine proposed class action lawsuits have been filed since Oct. 27 […]
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Chicago Sun-Times reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the […]
Bleeping Computer reports: A hacker has taken responsibility for last week’s University of Pennsylvania “We got hacked” email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and internal documents. On Friday, University of Pennsylvania alumni and students began receiving multiple offensive emails from Penn.edu addresses claiming the university […]
Notice of Data Security Incident On October 23, 2025, Michael R. Schwartz, M.D., Inc. (“the Practice”) mailed notification letters to certain individuals whose information may have been involved in a recent data security incident. On or about August 25, 2025, the Practice became aware that an unauthorized party gained remote access to one computer within […]
Yale News reports a settlement stemming from a March, 2025 data breach that the Yale New Haven Health System reported to HHS as impacting 5,556,702 individuals: The Yale New Haven Health System has agreed to finance an $18 million settlement fund in response to a class action lawsuit about a data breach that allowed an unauthorized third […]
The Record reports: A Ukrainian national accused of launching ransomware attacks on behalf of the Conti group appeared in a U.S. court on Thursday after being extradited from Ireland. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko is facing several charges related to his suspected involvement with the Conti ransomware gang, which attacked hundreds of organizations globally before disbanding in 2022. The […]
