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Latest News: Data Breaches

Cerebral has admitted to sharing sensitive information of over 3.1 million patients with Google, Meta, TikTok, and other third-party platforms. The disclosure from the telehealth startup was made in a notice posted on the company's website, revealing that "On January 3, 2023, Cerebral determined

Zane Kennedy First published on March 16, 2023

AT&T has informed nearly 9 million customers that their information was compromised after a marketing vendor was hacked in January. The company has issued a breach notification that reveals that Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) was exposed. The data breach notification did not

Keira Waddell First published on March 15, 2023

Hackers have acquired the sensitive personal information of a number of Members of the US House, along with their employees and family members. The stolen data appears to already have been sold on the dark web, as reported by CBS News. The data was obtained via a significant data breach at

Husain Parvez First published on March 10, 2023

Online payment processor PayPal is facing a proposed class action lawsuit for a data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 35,000 users in December 2022. The lawsuit, filed on March 2, 2023, accuses PayPal of negligence for failing to protect its users' personal data. The

Zane Kennedy First published on March 09, 2023

The United States Marshals Service (USMS) has suffered a serious ransomware attack that compromised sensitive data. This included law enforcement documents and personal information belonging to employees and the targets of federal investigations. On Monday, February 27th, Drew Wade, a

Zane Kennedy First published on March 05, 2023

On February 27th, Australian government officials conducted a “Cyber Security Roundtable” meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in a bid to counter the growing threat of cyberattacks. Within the meeting, the continued development of a new “National Cyber Security Strategy” was

Husain Parvez First published on March 02, 2023

On Monday, the US Department of Defense (DoD) took action to secure an unprotected server that had been leaking confidential U.S. military emails onto the open internet for the past two weeks. The unprotected server hosted on Microsoft's Azure specialized government cloud was part of a mailbox

Zane Kennedy First published on February 28, 2023

Hackers have gained and released data center login credentials of more than 2,000 businesses, including Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, Apple, and Amazon. This allowed hackers to masquerade as authorized users on the customer support sites for these data centers. According to the report from

Husain Parvez First published on February 22, 2023

GoDaddy, a domain registrar and web hosting service with over 20 million customers, disclosed last Friday that an unknown group of cybercriminals has gained access to customer accounts three times in the last three years. In an SEC filing, GoDaddy said, "These incidents are part of a multi-year

Keira Waddell First published on February 21, 2023

Clop, a ransomware group with ties to Russia, has asserted it was behind recent attacks that exploited a zero-day flaw in the GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool. One of the biggest victims was Community Health Systems (CHS), one of the largest healthcare providers in the US. They confirmed

Keira Waddell First published on February 17, 2023