UK: Police Federation pays £15m to officers hit by cyber attack

The Police Federation has paid out £15 million to 19,000 current and former officers who had their personal details compromised and stolen by cyber criminals. Two huge attacks exposed the home addresses of some officers to hackers six years ago, Read More …

Texas: Drivers’ data compromised in TxDOT data breach of nearly 300,000 crash reports

The Texas Department of Transportation said it is reaching out to Texans whose personal data was compromised during a data breach that led to the improper download of nearly 300,000 crash reports. Personal data included in crash reports includes: full Read More …

More than 3 million records, 12TB of data exposed in major app builder breach

Millions of records containing sensitive, personally identifiable information, were sitting online in yet another unencrypted, non-password-protected database, experts have warned. Found by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who discovered and reported his findings to vpnMentor, the database contained 3,637,107 records, and Read More …

Cartier confirms data breach, warns customers of potential targeted attacks

Cartier, the famous jewellery and watchmaker, is owned by Richemont, a Swiss-based luxury conglomerate has notified customers of a data breach that exposed limited personal information following a security lapse in its systems. The brand said the breach was swiftly Read More …

Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump

A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names. The leaks include thousands of chat logs, personal videos, and ransom negotiations tied to Read More …

Melbourne-based financial services and advice firm hit with cyber attack

Financial services aggregate 3P Corporation has denied its data was breached in an April attack; however, hackers have published more than 200 gigabytes of internal documents and customer data online. The Space Bears ransomware gang listed Victorian financial services firm Read More …

FBI probes effort to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

One or more unknown people accessed White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’ personal cellphone and used her contacts file to reach out to other top officials and impersonate her, sources told CBS News Thursday. Some of the recipients realized Read More …

UK: NHS patient data at risk in major cyber attack

A newly uncovered cyber attack has exposed sensitive information at two major NHS trusts, raising fears that patient records could be at risk. University College London hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, and University Hospital Southampton, NHS Foundation Trust were among the Read More …