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North Carolina law firm notifies 13K people of data breach that compromised SSNs
Yesterday, Mewborn & DeSelms, Attorneys at Law began notifying 12,941 people of a data breach following a cyber attack in April 2024. Ransomware gang BlackSuit claimed an attack on the North Carolina law firm in May 2024. In its notification, Mewborn & DeSelms states: “On April 2, 2024, Mewborn & DeSelms identified a network disruption and promptly initiated an investigation…
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Engineering firm IMI hit with cyber attack just days after Smiths Group incident
Birmingham-based engineering firm IMI has revealed that it has been hit by a cyber attack. The FTSE-100 firm said the incident involved unauthorised access to its systems, but gave no further details. “As soon as IMI became aware of the unauthorised access, the company engaged external cybersecurity experts to investigate and contain the incident. In parallel, the company is taking…
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850,000 patients may have been affected in the Globe Life breach after firm revises victim list
American insurance firm Globe Life has warned that another 855,000 people were potentially impacted by a cyber attack last summer — not the original 5,000 initially reported. Last summer, Globe Life spotted that cyber criminals had accessed customer data, reportedly via an online portal. The insurance company — one of the biggest and oldest in the US — filed a…
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Kansas law firm notifies 152K people of data breach that compromised SSNs, finances
Kansas law firm Berman & Rabin yesterday confirmed it notified 151,944 people about a July 2024 data breach that compromised Social Security numbers and financial account info. Attackers first breached the firm on July 5, 2024, but the firm didn’t discover the breach until October 8, 2024, according to a disclosure submitted to the Maine attorney general. “It was determined…
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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has Silicon Valley flustered
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released a range of models capable of competing with OpenAI in a move experts told ITPro showcases the strength of open source AI. The announcement appears to have taken big tech players by surprise, with commentators noting that it highlights the growing capabilities of Chinese-based firms operating in the space. In a post on LinkedIn…
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‘Maybe we aren’t going to hire anybody this year’: Marc Benioff says Salesforce might not hire any software engineers in 2025 as the firm reaps the benefits of AI agents
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has suggested the company may freeze software engineering hires owing to the firm’s success with AI agents. Productivity gains delivered by AI agents internally at Salesforce mean the firm may not need to onboard new staff in development, Benioff told ‘The Logan Bartlett Show’ podcast. “In engineering this year at Salesforce, we’re seriously debating – maybe…
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US sanctions Chinese firm, hacker behind telecom and Treasury hacks
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for his role in the recent Treasury breach and a company associated with the Salt Typhoon threat group. “Yin Kecheng has been a cyber actor for over a decade and is affiliated with the People’s Republic of China Ministry of State…
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Law firm Wolf Haldenstein notifies 3.4 million people of data breach that compromised SSNs and medical info
Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz yesterday confirmed it notified 3,445,537 people of a December 2023 data breach that compromised Social Security numbers, employee ID numbers, medical diagnoses, and medical claim information. Ransomware gang Black Basta claimed responsibility for the breach shortly after it occurred. At the time, it gave Wolf Hadenstein just over a week to pay…
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Microsoft staff face second round of layoffs as firm continues cost-cutting measures
Microsoft has revealed another round of layoffs in addition to the performance-based cuts confirmed last week, according to reports from Business Insider. The layoffs will hit a range of teams across the organization, including security, sales, experiences and devices, and gaming, according to two people familiar with the matter. One source claimed employees started to receive notifications about layoffs in…
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Zellis snaps up AI-powered HR software firm elementsuite
Payroll and HR solutions provider Zellis has announced plans to acquire elementsuite in a move the firm said will expand the capabilities of its HR software offering. The transaction, for which financial terms were not disclosed, will see elementsuite combined with Zellis’ own payroll and HR software to create an end-to-end, AI-powered platform. Headquartered in Watford, elementsuite provides an AI-powered…
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