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Crypto exchange Coinbase has disclosed a significant cyber attack that could cost the company between $180m (£135m) and $400m (£300m), after hackers breached account data belonging to a “small subset” of its users. The news sent shares down three per Read More …
The ransom-seeking cybercriminals behind the extortion group Lockbit appear to have suffered a breach of their own, according to a rogue post to one of the group’s websites and security analysts who follow the gang. On Wednesday one of Lockbit’s Read More …
In April, South Korea’s telco giant SK Telecom (SKT) was hit by a cyberattack that led to the theft of personal data on approximately 23 million customers, equivalent to almost half of the country’s 52 million residents. At a National Read More …
Ticket reselling platform Ticket To Cash kept an unprotected database online, exposing sensitive information on hundreds of thousands of customers, experts have warned. The database was discovered by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who managed to get in touch with the Read More …
TikTok has been hit with a €530 million penalty by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating EU privacy laws following a probe into the platform’s transfer of European user data to China. The watchdog found that the company Read More …
A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, dating and sexual preferences associated with the Raw Read More …
One of the biggest private healthcare systems in the US, Ascension, has notified patients that personally identifiable information (PII) including health data, was stolen in a previously unannounced attack affecting a former business partner in December 2024. The incident follows Read More …
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 Internet Crime Report. And it has revealed a record-breaking surge in cybercrime losses across the United States. Last year, total losses reached $16.6 billion, which is a 33% increase Read More …
Health insurance firm Blue Shield has revealed a data breach has exposed protected health data of over 4.7 million members. The information was leaked to Google’s analytics and advertisement platforms following a misconfiguration of Google analytics on Blue Shield sites. Read More …
More than 1.6 million people are now thought to have been affected by the May 2024 cyberattack at Landmark Admin, twice as many as originally thought. The company confirmed the news in an updated report filed with the Office of Read More …
