TechCrunch reports: Days after reporting an incident affecting a number of its customers, enterprise data giant Alation on Thursday confirmed a cyberattack. Alation makes data software that its enterprise customers use to search for files and data using natural language queries. In recent years, the company has expanded into AI, allowing customers to turn large amounts of […]
In March 2025, CISA published an advisory on the Medusa ransomware gang. They have now updated it, noting: Medusa is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant first identified in June 2021. As of April 2026, Medusa developers and affiliates—referred to as “Medusa actors” in this advisory—have impacted over 500 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors. […]
Fox54 in Alabama reports: A second proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed over the data breach that compromised patient information at Huntsville Hospital Health System, this time in federal court and against both the hospital system and its electronic records vendor. Crystal Mullins filed the complaint Aug. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of […]
Dark Reading reports: A ransomware affiliate is approaching victims of the attacks it may have helped carry out, in an interesting technique that actually undermines its own business model. According to the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT), a malicious entity referring to itself as “Ransom Busters” has sent an email to cyberattack victims, claiming to have […]
The Register reports: France’s tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal advertised a purported database of 2 million taxpayers. Using the alias “ZeroBytes,” the alleged crook behind the attack on the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) advertised the stolen database on a […]
On June 15, Baylor Genetics in Texas discovered a breach. An investigation subsequently determined that an unauthorized party had accessed data between June 11 and June 17. From their press release: For all impacted patients, the information potentially involved varied by individual and may have included names and one or more of the following for […]
Source: California DFPI, August 13, 2026
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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 […]
