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23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information was exposed in a data breach Read More …
In an announcement posted on Fortinet’s website, the company said that someone gained access to a “limited number of files” stored on its instance of an unnamed third-party cloud-based shared file drive. The files included “limited data related to a Read More …
Researchers have found a database backup belonging to Florida-based recruitment company MNA Healthcare left unsecured online, leaving the details of thousands of workers open to anyone. The company offers staffing services for healthcare workers and matches them with hospitals and Read More …
“Anyone who suspects illegal infection of their phones can consult this page or use the government service we will provide. I urge young people, especially those connected to youth leaders who disappeared or died during the strike, to use these Read More …
Canadian payment gateway provider Slim CD was hit by a cyberattack which has affected almost 1.7 million US and Canadian users. The company first detected suspicious activity in its system on June 15 2024, however an investigation revealed the system Read More …
Nearly 1 million Medicare beneficiaries are being warned that their personal information may have been compromised in a cybersecurity incident last year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS), the contractor that Read More …
Car rental giant Avis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information and driver’s license numbers were stolen in an August cyberattack. The New Jersey-headquartered company said in a data breach notice filed with several U.S. attorneys Read More …
Over the summer, Disney’s internal communications channels suffered a data breach. We now know that as a result of this breach, guests and employees were affected, with personal information being stolen by hackers. Earlier this summer, a hacker group called Read More …
Intellexa Group’s Predator spyware has experienced a resurgence in activity following a decline spurred by sanctions imposed by the Biden administration, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which Read More …
In early August, cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews discovered an unprotected database containing sensitive information on hundreds of thousands of Chinese individuals. To this day, they haven’t figured out who the database belongs to, or why it was generated and left Read More …