TechCrunch reports: U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. The company disclosed the data breach on Saturday in a legally required filing with Maine’s attorney general, but did not immediately provide a number of […]
The Record reports: Cleaning product giant Clorox has filed a lawsuit against Cognizant, a company it hired to operate its IT services call-in help desk, accusing the contractor of being directly responsible for a 2023 cyberattack that cost hundreds of millions. The case, filed on Tuesday in California Superior Court, alleges that contractors working for […]
Help Net Security reports that an alleged administrator of xss.is, a dominant Russian-speaking cybercrime forum, was arrested in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 22 July. The takedown followed a long-running investigation led by the French Police and Paris Prosecutor, in close cooperation with Ukrainian authorities and Europol. As Help Net summarizes the allegations: The forum’s administrator is […]
There is an update to a data breach reported in February involving Australia IVF giant Genea. ABC News in Australia now reports: Patients of Australia’s third-largest IVF provider, Genea, have been informed that their sensitive information — including medical history — has been posted on the dark web. The update comes more than five months […]
Bleeping Computer reports: AMEOS Group, an operator of a massive healthcare network in Central Europe, has announced it has suffered a security breach that may have exposed customer, employee, and partner information. The organization published a statement on its website, as required by Article 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which mandates a […]
July 22, 2025 – Gatineau, Quebec
DataBreaches.net reports that two entities have recently ceased operations following ransomware attacks. One was in the healthcare sector while the other was in the business sector: It is still fairly rare for a ransomware victim to totally shutter its doors permanently as a result of an incident, but a relatively small breach in Georgia was […]
The Record reports: The British government’s proposals to overhaul its ransomware strategy reached a minor milestone on Tuesday as the Home Office published its formal response to a consultation on amending the law, but questions remain regarding how effective the measures will be. Public consultations are a regular part of the British legislative process. In […]
The Hacker News reports: A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server has been weaponized as part of an “active, large-scale” exploitation campaign. The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-53770 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a variant of CVE-2025-49704 (CVSS score: 8.8), a code injection and remote code execution bug in Microsoft SharePoint Server that was […]
The Daily Security Review reports: Episource, a key healthcare services provider under UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division, has disclosed a significant data breach that exposed the sensitive personal and medical data of more than 5.4 million individuals. The company, which offers risk adjustment and medical coding services to healthcare providers and insurers, identified unauthorized access to […]
