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New Microsoft 365 outage impacts Teams, causes call failures
Microsoft is investigating a new Microsoft 365 outage that is affecting Teams customers and causing call failures. Since the incident started more than one hour ago, outage monitoring service Downdetector has received hundreds of reports, with affected users saying they’re also experiencing authentication problems. “Users may not be able to receive calls placed through Microsoft Teams-provisioned auto attendants and call queues,” the company said in…
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GrubHub data breach impacts customers, drivers, and merchants
Food delivery company GrubHub disclosed a data breach impacting the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers, merchants, and drivers after attackers breached its systems using a service provider account. “Our investigation found that the intrusion originated with an account belonging to a third-party service provider that provided support services to Grubhub,” the company said on Monday. “We immediately…
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US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients
Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients of a data breach that impacted their personal and health data. The non-profit organization provides primary medical, dental, and mental health services to more than 145,000 active patients. CHC said in a Thursday filing with Maine’s attorney general that unknown attackers gained access to its…
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US healthcare provider data breach impacts 1 million patients
Community Health Center (CHC), a leading Connecticut healthcare provider, is notifying over 1 million patients of a data breach that impacted their personal and health data. The non-profit organization provides primary medical, dental, and mental health services to more than 145,000 active patients. CHC said in a Thursday filing with Maine’s attorney general that unknown attackers gained access to its…
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Genshin Impact’s developer to pay $20 million fine to settle FTC charges
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday that Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere has agreed to a $20 million settlement and several restrictions on how it sells its loot boxes and manages children’s personal data. According to the FTC, the company “actively marketed” its loot boxes to children and misled players about their odds of winning prizes. Cognosphere allegedly also “deceived…
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Texas Tech University System data breach impacts 1.4 million patients
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and its El Paso counterpart suffered a cyberattack that disrupted computer systems and applications, potentially exposing the data of 1.4 million patients. The organization is a public, academic health institution that is part of the Texas Tech University System, which educates and trains healthcare professionals, conducts medical research, and provides patient care services. The…
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Insurance admin Landmark says data breach impacts 800,000 people
Insurance administrative services company Landmark Admin warns that a data breach impacts over 800,000 people from a May cyberattack. Landmark Admin is a third-party administrator for insurance companies, offering back-office services like new business processing and claims administration for large insurance carriers. Some insurance carriers working with Landmark Admin include American Monumental Life Insurance Company, Pellerin Life Insurance Company, American Benefit Life…
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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. “Have you ever felt like…
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New Windows Vulnerability Impacts PCs With IPv6
Security updates are an important way to keep your devices safe, and if you have a Windows PC, you’ll definitely want to install any available updates. Microsoft is now patching a significant vulnerability caused by the IPv6 stack in Windows. Microsoft has confirmed a critical vulnerability in its TCP/IP protocol that could allow remote attackers to execute code on all…
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Zero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled, patch now
Microsoft warned customers this Tuesday to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability with an increased likelihood of exploitation that impacts all Windows systems using IPv6, which is enabled by default. Found by Kunlun Lab’s XiaoWei and tracked as CVE-2024-38063, this security bug is caused by an Integer Underflow weakness, which attackers could exploit to trigger buffer overflows that…
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