On October 26, Frontline Education issued a press release about a data breach: WAYNE, Penn., October 26, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frontline Education, a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for K-12, today announced that it has begun sending notification letters to individuals whose data was impacted in the August 2026 cybersecurity incident involving Frontline Central and School […]
Becker’s Health IT reports: Business services provider Conduent has agreed to pay $80 million to settle class action litigation over the third-largest healthcare data breach on record, which exposed data on about 62.2 million people. Conduent signed the settlement Oct. 16 with plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, according […]
ITPro reports: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has banned the use of DeepSeek by civilian federal agencies, citing security concerns. The ban covers any technology built with the aid of the company’s AI models, and applies to agencies including the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, and the Department of Justice, […]
The Register reports on a significant data breach affecting millions of Danes. And yes, the password that reportedly enabled access to the data was “123456.” A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark’s Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company’s account protected by the password “123456.” The person […]
This is the kind of press a contractor dreads. Reuters reports that the FBI has removed an Accenture contractor on Monday because its failure to patch a vulnerability in Oracle’s PeopleSoft in a timely manner reportedly allowed the troubling FBI data breach by ShinyHunters. In a statement to Reuters, a senior FBI official confirmed that an unidentified contractor […]
In June, LabCorp settled a class action lawsuit over the 2018 American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach for $35 million. Now it has settled charges by state attorneys general stemming from the same incident. Bank Info Security reports: LabCorp has agreed to pay $2.2 million and improve its data security and vendor risk management practices […]
Ratopati reports that a ransomware attack on a Nepal Stock Exchange data center resulted in the closing of stock market trading on Monday. There are 90 broker companies in Nepal. These brokers use two data centers to store data related to transactions with their clients. Of these, Data Hub handles the data center work for […]
Insurance Business Magazine considers the question of whether a firm’s cyberinsurance will cover a breach at its vendor. The detail that matters for insurance brokers is not that a breach occurred – it is how. Ryan Specialty’s 2026 analysis of Dependent Business Interruption (Dependent BI) coverage puts the structural problem plainly: “Each of these events […]
Threat actors may claim to have hacked an entity when the reality is that they hacked the entity’s vendor. This is one of those instances. iTWeb reports: Insurer Hollard has rejected claims that its IT systems were hacked, saying a threat actor’s allegations stem from a cyber incident at a third-party service provider. This, after […]
Between December 2 and December 18, 2025, Aesto LLC, a business associate under HIPAA, suffered a data breach that would impact dozens of its covered entity clients. The clients first found out in June, however. Bleeping Computer reports: Aesto LLC, operating as Aesto Health, disclosed that a data breach discovered recently affects more than 9.5 […]
