The Record reports that the court administrator approved a $47 million settlement fund, even though plaintiffs had sought $47 billion: A Missouri bankruptcy court administrator on Wednesday signed off on a deal that gives millions of victims of a 2023 data breach at 23andMe a cut of a $46.8 million settlement fund. About 7 million […]
TechCrunch reports that ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for hacking Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities. The breaches, first reported by BleepingComputer involved: “Student, applicant, financial aid, immigration, health, and administrative data has been exfiltrated,” read a message that the hacker said was sent to one of the victims. The hackers claimed […]
In 2023, Singing River Health System in Mississippi was hit by the Rhysida gang. In October 2023, Singing River Health System and its wholly owned subsidiary, Singing River Gulfport notified HHS that 895,204 patients had been affected. In response to the incident, they reportedly implemented a series of improved technical safeguards. Whatever they did was […]
HealthcareInfoSecurity reports that Conduent has updated its already-large data breach numbers: The victim tally in back-office support services firm Conduent Business Services‘ 2024 hack has more than doubled to over 62.2 million people. The revised, eye-popping total Conduent reported to federal regulators apparently in recent days brings the breach closer to tying the nearly 79 […]
Financial Times reports: Anthropic is helping the US National Security Agency deploy its powerful Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, embedding engineers inside the agency despite an ongoing legal battle with the Pentagon. The San Francisco-based company had installed about half a dozen staff within the NSA as so-called forward-deployed engineers to guide […]
404 Media reports: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master […]
KRCR reports: California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a lawsuit Thursday against genetic testing company 23andMe, now known as Chrome Holding Company, accusing the company of failing to protect millions of users’ sensitive genetic information during a massive 2023 data breach. According to the lawsuit, the breach exposed the personal information of nearly 7 million users […]
You’ve trained your employees well to avoid falling for phishing or social engineering attempts. Have you trained them on what to do when someone shows up who appears to be from your firm’s IT support? The Record reports: A cyber extortion group linked to the now-defunct Conti ransomware syndicate is increasingly targeting U.S. law firms […]
WJAR reports: A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised in the incident. A message on the company website states more than 131,000 people in Rhode Island are impacted. NBC 10 News has learned the number includes thousands of state workers. Files that were hacked included Social […]
Technology.org reports: The group behind it, a fast-rising crew called TeamPCP, says it reached roughly 4,000 of GitHub’s code repositories. GitHub confirmed the breach Tuesday night and counted at least 3,800 compromised repositories, all of them holding GitHub’s own code rather than customer data, according to what it has found so far. For years, supply […]
