The Times of India reports: TCS informed the stock exchanges on Monday that it received threat-intelligence alerts alleging possible exposure to certain employee information but said its investigation found no credible evidence of a breach of its systems or customerenvironments. The disclosure follows a post by data security firm S2W on X, which said a […]
The Record reports: Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed on Friday that suspected hackers gained unauthorized access to company files after compromising employees’ computers, making the iconic American apparel maker the latest retailer to report a cybersecurity incident. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the denim company said an unauthorized third party accessed and […]
Non-profit organizations are not immune to cyberattacks by unscrupulous threat actors. In this case, a third-party vendor was hit, as Yahoo! UK reports: An investigation has been launched after Southampton Hospitals Charity is among 1,500 potentially affected by a cyber attack. Southampton Hospitals Charity confirmed it is one of the charities targeted in a cyber-security […]
The Record reports: A Canadian national is facing decades in prison for participating in the hacking of data storage platform Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, pleaded guilty to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy on Wednesday in a Washington state federal court. He will be sentenced on October 27 and […]
The Hacker News reports: A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, […]
There is an update to the data security incident involving Ernst & Young, which ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for. Ernst & Young did not confirm that ShinyHunters was responsible for the breach, but in its latest update, ShinyHunters adds additional details to its claims and leaks the data. Ernst & Young disclosed the breach in July, […]
~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet: Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. […]
From the Baker Donelson law firm: IBM has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2026. The 21st edition of the report analyzed 602 data breaches experienced by organizations across 17 industries between March 2025 and February 2026. It provides one of the most comprehensive views available of the financial impact of data breaches […]
Fox News reports: Making a few extra dollars online should not put your bank details or identity at risk. Yet that is the concern for people who used Paidwork, an online earnings application. A leaked database tied to the platform reportedly contains information from more than 23 million accounts. If you ever signed up, now […]
A Public Service Announcement from the FBI: Alert: I-073026-PSA | 30 JULY 2026 Malicious Cyber Actors Targeting Water and Wastewater Sector Internet-Facing Programmable Logic Controllers, Causing Operational Disruptions INTRODUCTION The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators […]
