Finance, Data Breach News
January 24, 2025
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New York State Department of Financial Services Secures $2 Million Cybersecurity Settlement with PayPal, Inc.

PayPal’s Cybersecurity Failures Led to the Exposure of Customers’ Social Security Numbers January 23, 2025 New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris today announced that PayPal, Inc. (PayPal) will pay a $2 million penalty to New York State for violations of DFS’s Cybersecurity Regulation. An investigation determined PayPal failed to use qualified […]

Data Breach News, News
January 22, 2025
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Government IT contractor Conduent says ‘third-party compromise’ caused outages

What third party, you wonder? They don’t say. Recorded Future reports: A recent outage affecting the government technology contractor Conduent was due to a cyberattack that compromised the company’s operating systems.  A Conduent spokesperson told Recorded Future News the company recently “experienced an operational disruption due to a third-party compromise” of one of their operating […]

Legal News, Data Breach News
January 22, 2025
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Big guns going after big guns: Firm Behind Big Tobacco Settlement Now Suing Deloitte Over RI Data Breach

Deloitte has already been sued over the breach involving Rhode Island benefits recipient data. But now there’s a bigger suit. GOLOCAL/Prov Rhode Island reports: The law firm that negotiated the $246 billion settlement with big tobacco is now suing Deloitte over the recent massive data breach in Rhode Island. In a 65-page complaint filed this week in […]

Data Breach News, News
January 21, 2025
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Personal information of Toronto District School Board students going back 4 decades may have been breached in PowerSchool incident

The PowerSchool breach that is giving school districts throughout the U.S. major headaches also affected school districts in Canada. The Toronto Star reports: Toronto’s public school board says personal information of its students dating back to 1985 may have been breached during a recent cybersecurity incident that affected many districts across North America. … The […]

Data Breach News
January 20, 2025
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FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year

Now we are first finding out how scary the Snowflake breach was for FBI agents and informants whose information may have been caught up in the AT&T downstream attack. Bloomberg reports: FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off […]

Data Breach News
January 18, 2025
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Wolf Haldenstein Data Breach Impacts 3,445, 537 people

Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is notifying more than 3.4 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a December 2023 data breach. Security Week reports: According to the firm, it discovered the incident after detecting suspicious activity on its network. Its investigation revealed that a threat actor accessed certain […]

Data Breach News, News
January 17, 2025
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Blue Yonder investigating Clop gang’s threat linked to exploited Cleo CVEs

The Cl0p gang that previously successfully attacked file transfer software platforms by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities is now starting to leak data from yet another campaign targeting file transfer software. This time, it’s CLEO. Cybersecurity Dive reports: Blue Yonder said it is investigating a threat after Clop listed the supply chain management company among nearly 60 […]

Vulnerabilities, Data Breach News
January 16, 2025
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Hacking group leaks Fortinet users’ details on dark web

Details from more than 15,000 devices exposed If you use Fortinet, Computing.co.uk has information that you need to know: Hackers calling themselves Belsen Group have leaked details of users of Fortinet firewalls on the dark web. Researcher Kevin Beaumont, who has reviewed the data dump, says he believes it to be genuine, since devices in […]