The Oregonian reports: Intel says a former employee downloaded thousands of documents shortly after the company fired him in July, many of them classified as “Top Secret.” Jinfeng Luo lived in Seattle and had worked as a software developer for Intel since 2014, according to a lawsuit the company filed against him in Washington federal […]
PC Mag reports: The Washington Post has confirmed it fell victim to a large-scale cybercrime campaign that targeted Oracle’s business applications, joining Harvard University and American Airlines-owned carrier Envoy, which announced similar breaches last month. The news, first reported by Reuters, comes after Google said in October that it believes around 100 companies were affected by the hacking campaign, and that “large amounts […]
In 2022, Illuminate Education, Inc. suffered a major data breach. Now three states have announced a settlement with the edtech vendor. From the California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office:
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SonicWall reports: In early September, SonicWall detected suspicious activity related to the downloading of backup firewall configuration files stored in a specific cloud environment. Our incident response team immediately activated our established response protocols, engaged Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity response firm, and notified our global partners and customers directly about the incident and remediation steps to protect their customers. In addition to frequent and transparent communication with partners and customers, SonicWall […]
NextGov reports: The Congressional Budget Office, Capitol Hill’s nonpartisan accounting service that delivers financial assessments for legislation, was accessed in a hack potentially tied to a foreign hacker group. “The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to […]
A breach affecting South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, KT, continues to have ramifications for the carrier. Chosun Biz reports: The joint public-private investigation team (hereafter, the investigation team) operated by the Ministry of Science and ICT announced interim findings on the KT hacking and breach incident on the 6th. The investigation team said that, […]
The Economic Times reports: Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released its fifth annual State of Ransomware in Retail report, highlighting how visibility gaps across retail networks continue to leave businesses vulnerable. The survey of 361 IT and security leaders across 16 countries found that 46% of ransomware attacks in the sector originated from previously unknown security […]
Bank Info Security reports: Proposed federal class action litigation is piling up against Conduent Business Solutions following its recent public disclosure that an October 2024 hacking incident potentially compromised personal and health information of more than 10.5 million people. As of Tuesday, at least nine proposed class action lawsuits have been filed since Oct. 27 […]
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