Data Breach News, News
December 01, 2025
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Chinese cyberattack campaign likely impacted every American, former FBI official says

Fox News reports: A former FBI official claims that it’s likely every American has been impacted by a Chinese-state-sponsored cyberattack. International law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and National Security Agency, issued a joint advisory in September warning the public that CCP-sponsored actors are “targeting” many aspects of American lives, including telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging and military infrastructure networks. […]

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November 28, 2025
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CodeRED Emergency Alerts Disrupted Across US After Ransomware Breach

Code Red app screen

Bitdefender reports: A ransomware attack on Crisis24, the vendor behind the CodeRED emergency alert system, has left towns and cities across the United States without a core public-warning tool. CodeRED is widely used to push urgent notifications for severe weather, public safety incidents, missing persons and other critical situations. In the aftermath of the intrusion, […]

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November 26, 2025
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Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s that time when we put aside our news activities and share some good times with family and friends. But what would Thanksgiving be without reflecting on what we are grateful for, right? We know that this year has been especially difficult for some families who have had their families ripped apart by ICE. Others […]

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November 25, 2025
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Comcast to pay $1.5 million US fine after vendor data breach

Reuters reports: Comcast will pay a $1.5 million fine after a vendor breach exposed personal data from 237,000 current and former customers, the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday. The FCC said a debt collector used by Comcast until 2022, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, suffered a 2024 data breach that exposed personal information of Comcast […]

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November 23, 2025
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Bank Customer Data Hacked From a Technology Vendor for Real Estate Lenders

A computer monitor displays "SYSTEM HACKED"

The New York Times reports: Some of the nation’s biggest banks were scrambling on Saturday night to assess the fallout from a large-scale hack of a vendor whose compromise could expose sensitive customer data. The vendor, SitusAMC, has been deployed by hundreds of banks and other lenders to help originate and collect money from real […]

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November 22, 2025
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CrowdStrike catches — and fires — employee feeding information to hackers

Bleeping Computer reports: American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with hackers after they were leaked on Telegram by the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters threat actors. However, the company noted that its systems were not breached as a result of this incident and that customers’ data was not […]

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November 21, 2025
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Salesforce cuts off access to third-party app after discovering ‘unusual activity’

The Record reports: Cloud giant Salesforce warned customers of a potential data breach on Wednesday evening after discovering “unusual activity” related to a third-party application called Gainsight.  Salesforce posted a message on its website saying an investigation revealed that the activity “may have enabled unauthorized access to certain customers’ Salesforce data through the app’s connection.”  Gainsight is […]

Vendor News, Data Breach News, Education Sector, Legal News, News
November 20, 2025
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Ontario and Alberta privacy commissioners release investigation findings into PowerSchool breach affecting school boards and other educational bodies

TORONTO, ON (November 18, 2025) — Ontario and Alberta information and privacy commissioners have released the findings of their investigations into a massive privacy breach involving PowerSchool education technology (edtech) used by schools in their respective provinces. The incident, which affected millions of Canadians across the country, highlights the importance for educational bodies, including school boards, […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare, News, Vendor News
November 19, 2025
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From bad to worse: Doctor Alliance hacked again by same threat actor

DataBreaches.net reports that Doctor Alliance, a business associate to covered entities in the healthcare sector, recently fell prey to a cyberattack that allegedly comprised 353 GB of patient files. Making matters even worse, after assuring clients that the vulnerability had been addressed and everything was secure, it was attacked again by the same threat actor […]