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IT services firm GeoLogics notifies 12K people of data breach that compromised SSNs, financial info
IT services company GeoLogics yesterday confirmed it notified 11,948 people of a December 2023 data breach that compromised names, Social Security numbers, financial account info, and state-issued ID numbers. Ransomware gang DragonForce claimed responsibility for the breach, saying it stole 123 GB of data from GeoLogics. DragonForce lists GeoLogics on its data leak site. GeoLogics has not verified DragonForce’s claim.…
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Microsoft finds default Kubernetes Helm charts can expose data
Microsoft warns about the security risks posed by default configurations in Kubernetes deployments, particularly those using out-of-the-box Helm charts, which could publicly expose sensitive data. In many cases, those Helm charts required no authentication, left exploitable ports open, and used weak or hardcoded passwords that were trivial to break. A report published by security researchers Michael Katchinskiy and Yossi Weizman…
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Texas school district notifies 47K students and staff of data breach that leaked SSNs, credit cards, and more
Alvin Independent School District over the weekend confirmed it notified 47,606 people about a June 2024 data breach that compromised the following personal info: Names Social Security numbers Credit and debit card numbers Financial account numbers Medical info Health insurance info State-issued ID numbers such as driver’s licenses and passports The Texas attorney general reported the breach on its website…
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Over 400,000 hit in massive employee benefits data breach — Social Security numbers and more exposed
A firm that focuses on employee benefits enrollment, Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, Inc. (Kelly Benefits) sent a notice to clients to alert them that thousands of them had their data exposed in a cyberattack. As reported by CyberNews, the company has confirmed, both in the client notice as well as in a filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office,…
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StealC malware enhanced with stealth upgrades and data theft tools
The creators of StealC, a widely-used information stealer and malware downloader, have released its second major version, bringing multiple stealth and data theft enhancements. The latest version of StealC was actually made available to cybercriminals in March 2025, but Zscaler researchers who analyzed it just published a detailed write-up. In the weeks that followed its release, several minor bug fixes…
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What is infostealer malware? Learn the silent threat to your data
According to the KELA State of Cybercrime 2025 report, more than 4.3 million devices were infected by infostealer malware in 2024, and 3.9 billion passwords were compromised in the process. This malicious software is designed to secretly collect sensitive data from devices. The data can include passwords, credit card information, and even crypto wallet credentials. Needless to say, infostealer malware is…
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$200 billion to build a data center? Soaring AI demands mean costs could skyrocket within a few years
Surging AI-related infrastructure demands mean data centers could soon cost as much as $200 billion to build, according to a recent study, with most owned privately rather than by governments. Research by Epoch AI tracing the computing powering AI by analyzing 500 systems shows that AI supercomputers — Epoch’s phrase for AI data centers or GPU clusters — are doubling…
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Co-op confirms data theft after DragonForce ransomware claims attack
The Co-op cyberattack is far worse than initially reported, with the company now confirming that data was stolen for a significant number of current and past customers. “As a result of ongoing forensic investigations, we now know that the hackers were able to access and extract data from one of our systems,” Co-op told BleepingComputer. “The accessed data included information…
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TikTok fined €530 million for sending European user data to China
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union’s GDPR data protection regulations. The administrative fines imposed by the Irish watchdog consist of a fine of €485 million for its infringement of Article 46(1) GDPR…
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Microsoft says this data center cooling technique can cut emissions by one-fifth – but switching to renewables will prove far more impactful
Microsoft has published what it said is a first-of-its-kind look at the total environmental footprint of data center cooling technologies, from raw materials to retirement. The ‘cradle-to-grave’ life cycle assessment (LCA), published in Nature, tots up the total carbon, energy, and water usage across four major cooling methods: air cooling, cold plates, one-phase immersion, and two-phase immersion. “In a nutshell,…
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