Data Breach News, News
March 11, 2025
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Attorney General James Sues National General and Allstate Insurance for Failing to Protect New Yorkers’ Personal Information

The following is a press release issued yesterday by NY Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against several insurance companies doing business as National General and Allstate Insurance Company (Allstate) for failing to protect New Yorkers’ personal information from cyberattacks. In 2020 and 2021, National General […]

Data Breach News
March 09, 2025
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Local and state governments continue to be targeted in cyberattacks

State and local governments continue to be targeted by threat actors. Here are three current situations in the news: Mission, Texas. Valley Central reports: The cybersecurity attack on the city of Mission has prompted the Mayor to declare a state of local disaster. Mayor Norie Gonzalez Garza sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, […]

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March 09, 2025
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Lost & Found tracking software site was exposing information on travelers’ lost devices and personal effects

Tech Radar reports on an exposed data set discovered by a researcher: A dataset contai,ning 820,750 records totaling 122GB has been discovered online, most likely belonging to German tracking software firm Lost & Found, which primarily services the aviation industry. As revealed by security researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, this was in an unprotected and publicly exposed dataset […]

Data Breach News, Legal News
March 08, 2025
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$25M loanDepot data breach class action settlement

Top Class Actions reports: Mortgage lender loanDepot agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised the information of 16.9 million customers. The loanDepot settlement benefits individuals who received a data breach notice from loanDepot informing them their information may have been compromised in a data […]

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March 07, 2025
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Data breach at Japanese telecom giant NTT hits 18,000 companies

Bleeping Computer reports: Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. The data breach was discovered in early February 2025, but the exact date when the hackers gained initial access to NTT’s systems hasn’t been determined. “NTT Communications Corporation discovered […]

News, Data Breach News
March 06, 2025
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US charges Chinese hackers, government officials in broad cyberespionage campaign

ABC News reports that the Department of Justice has announced indictments against 12 Chinese nationals involved in cyberespionage in U.S. v. Wu Haibo et al., U.S. v. Yin Kecheng, U.S. v. Zhou Shuai et al.: Twelve Chinese nationals, including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company, have been charged in connection with global […]

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March 05, 2025
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Ransomware group claims 1.4 TB data stolen in Tata cyberattack

Candid.Technology reports: A ransomware gang called Hunters International has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack on Indian tech firm Tata Technologies. The group has listed the company on its dark web leak site and adds that they stole over 730,000 files amounting to nearly 1.4 TB of data, threatening to leak to the public within […]

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March 04, 2025
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Qilin Cybercrime Ring Claims Credit for Lee Newspaper Breach

Dark Reading reports: Qilin, a Russian-speaking cybercrime group, has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack that impacted Lee Enterprises’ operations in early February. Lee Enterprises is one of the largest newspaper groups in the US, with publications in 72 markets, including The Buffalo News, Omaha World-Herald, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It filed a report last month with the SEC […]