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23andMe ‘failed to take basic steps’ to safeguard customer data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has slapped a fine of £2.31 million on genetic testing company 23andMe for failing to protect customer data after a cyber attack. The credential stuffing attack, which took place between April and September 2023, saw the exposure of the personal information of 155,592 UK residents. The data exposed included names, birth years, location, profile images,…
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Ransomware gang gives Strafford County NH 5 days to pay ransom before 830 GB of data leaked
This morning, ransomware gang DragonForce uploaded Strafford County, NH, to its data leak site, giving the US government entity just five days to meet its ransom demands before 830.03 GB of data is leaked. Strafford County noted network disruptions in the middle of March 2025 before bringing 98% of its systems back online around 10 days later. Strafford County Commissioner…
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Outage not caused by security incident, data is safe
Cloudflare has confirmed that the massive service outage yesterday was not caused by a security incident and no data has been lost. The issue has been largely mitigated. It started 17:52 UTC yesterday when the Workers KV (Key-Value) system went completely offline, causing widespread service losses across multiple edge computing and AI services. Workers KV is a globally distributed, consistent key-value…
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LockBit data dump reveals a treasure trove of intel on the notorious hacker group
China and the US were hardest-hit by the LockBit ransomware group between December 2024 and April this year, research shows, with affiliates targeting 156 organizations in all. Trellix Advanced Research Center has released its analysis of the LockBit SQL database dump it observed in May, noting that China was probably the greatest focus because of its large industrial base and…
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‘Don’t manage the storage, manage the data’: Pure Storage wants to simplify storage for the AI era – and Pure Accelerate 2025 will be a huge litmus test for customers
A lot has changed since I first attended Pure Accelerate in 2023. Hosted in June during the early days of the generative AI boom, it was clear Pure Storage viewed this industry pivot as a lucrative opportunity to showcase the power of all-flash storage. Sustainability benefits, energy efficiency, and performance were all highlighted as key benefits for customers dabbling in…
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Medical software maker Episource data breach leaks thousands of patients’ private health info
Medical software company Episource this week began notifying victims of a January 2025 data breach that compromised medical records and health insurance info. Sharp Healthcare, an Episource client in California, is also notifying patients of the breach. Sharp’s notice confirmed the breach resulted from a ransomware attack. Sharp’s notice says the following personal info was compromised: Health data such as…
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McLean Mortgage notifies 30K people of data breach that compromised SSNs, financial accounts
McLean Mortgage Corporation yesterday confirmed it notified 30,453 people of an October 2024 data breach that compromised names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and financial account numbers. Ransomware gang Black Basta took credit for the attack in November 2024, when it gave McLean one week to pay an undisclosed amount in ransom. To prove its claim, Black Basta posted…
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SmartAttack uses smartwatches to steal data from air-gapped systems
A new attack dubbed ‘SmartAttack’ uses smartwatches as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver to exfiltrate data from physically isolated (air-gapped) systems. Air-gapped systems, commonly deployed in mission-critical environments such as government facilities, weapons platforms, and nuclear power plants, are physically isolated from external networks to prevent malware infections and data theft. Despite this isolation, they remain vulnerable to compromise through…
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Salesforce changes Slack API terms to block bulk data access for LLMs – Computerworld
SaaS overload SaaS platforms – Salesforce, Teams, Gmail, Google Drive, Office 365, Dropbox, ServiceNow, GitHub, and many others – are hugely popular, but the more of these an organization uses, the more ‘silos’ of data employees must trawl through to find useful information. Founded by former Google employees, Glean itself supports 100 of these platforms, which puts the scale of the…
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Five Services That Will Remove Your Personal Information From Data Broker Sites
We’re living in a post-privacy world. Every time you leave the house you’re probably on camera. Every time you turn on your television, your viewing habits are being logged. And using the internet in any way is basically just spraying a firehose of your personal information at data brokers—companies that compile your personal information and sell it to marketing companies,…
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