404 Media reports: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master […]
KRCR reports: California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a lawsuit Thursday against genetic testing company 23andMe, now known as Chrome Holding Company, accusing the company of failing to protect millions of users’ sensitive genetic information during a massive 2023 data breach. According to the lawsuit, the breach exposed the personal information of nearly 7 million users […]
A press release from Carnival Corporation: Read more of the press release. Carnival has already been sued over the incident.
Martin A. Steinberg, J.D. discusses a case in the Northern District of Illinois: The provider must face negligence and implied-contract claims after patients alleged a vendor breach exposed sensitive health and personal data. Two patients brought a putative class action against HAH Group Holding, LLC d/b/a Help at Home, after a March 2024 vendor data […]
Consumer Affairs reports: Krispy Kreme customers affected by a 2024 data breach may now be eligible for compensation under a proposed class-action settlement. The doughnut chain has agreed to a $1.6 million settlement to resolve claims stemming from a cybersecurity incident disclosed in November 2024. The breach allegedly exposed personal information, including names, dates of […]
One month after announcing a 2024 data breach affecting 1.4 million patients, Radiology Associates of Richmond (“RAR”)was facing at least 10 potential class-action lawsuits. Now that the Virginia medical group has reported a second data breach in 2025, they are potentially facing more litigation. DataBreaches.net reports that RAR’s July 2025 breach affected 266,183 people, but it is unknown […]
WJAR reports: A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised in the incident. A message on the company website states more than 131,000 people in Rhode Island are impacted. NBC 10 News has learned the number includes thousands of state workers. Files that were hacked included Social […]
Technology.org reports: The group behind it, a fast-rising crew called TeamPCP, says it reached roughly 4,000 of GitHub’s code repositories. GitHub confirmed the breach Tuesday night and counted at least 3,800 compromised repositories, all of them holding GitHub’s own code rather than customer data, according to what it has found so far. For years, supply […]
NL Times reports: FIOD arrested two men in the Netherlands on Monday for aiding and facilitating pro-Russian cyberattacks and violating European sanctions. The FIOD suspects these men of providing infrastructure for cyberattacks on European targets, including attacks by pro-Russian cybercriminals on the Danish municipal elections. During raids on business premises in Almere and Drente, and data centers […]
CPO Magazine reports that the Nitrogen ransomware-as-as-service (RaaS) group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a major electronics manufacture for brands that include, Apple, AMD, and Nvidia: The documents the group claims to have stolen allegedly contain confidential instructions, projects, and drawings from various tech giants, including AMD, Apple, Google, Intel, and Nvidia. Other […]
