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Victoria’s Secret takes down website after security incident
IMAGE: ROWANLOVESCARS (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fashion giant Victoria’s Secret has taken down its website and some store services because of an ongoing security incident. Victoria’s Secret manages approximately 1,380 retail stores in nearly 70 countries and reported an annual revenue of $6.23 billion for the fiscal year ending February 1, 2025. The company says in a message on its…
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UK Legal Aid Agency investigates cybersecurity incident
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK’s Ministry of Justice that oversees billions in legal funding, warned law firms of a security incident and said the attackers might have accessed financial information. Approximately 2,000 providers, including barristers, solicitor firms, and non-profit organizations, deliver civil and criminal legal aid services in England and Wales under contracts with…
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M&S suspends online sales as ‘cyber incident’ continues
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has informed customers that all online and app sales have been suspended as the high street retailer battles a ‘cyber incident’. In a statement issued via social media, the company said the decision forms part of its “proactive management” of a suspected breach which has been ongoing for several days now. “We have made the decision…
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M&S calls in NCSC after ‘cyber incident’ disrupts customer payments, online orders
Retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) has revealed it has been dealing with a “cyber incident” in recent days and apologized to customers amid disruption complaints. The retailer said contactless payments and online orders have been impacted by the incident, but insisted no customer data has been compromised. While the exact cause of the incident is yet to be determined,…
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3.3 million people were exposed in the DISA data breach – it took the firm 10 months to disclose the incident
Background check firm DISA Global Solutions has revealed it suffered a data breach exposing millions of sensitive records – nearly a year after the incident first occurred. The breach, first discovered on April 22, 2024, had been allowing an unauthorized third-party to access data on around 3.3 million people since February 9th. “Although our forensics investigation could not definitively conclude…
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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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Chinese threat actors breached the US Treasury in ‘major incident’ – here’s what you need to know
Chinese threat actors were able to access highly sensitive information held by the US Treasury Department after compromising a third party service used for remote IT support. On 8 December, cybersecurity firm BeyondTrust warned users it had discovered an API key for its remote support SaaS solution had been compromised. The stolen key could allow threat actors to trigger password…
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Zello asks users to reset passwords after security incident
Zello is warning customers to reset their passwords if their account was created before November 2nd in what appears to be another security breach. Zello is a mobile service with 140 million users that allows first responders, hospitality services, transportation, and family and friends to communicate via their mobile phones using a push-to-talk app. Over the past two weeks, numerous people…
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Major incident declared as Merseyside hospitals hit by cyber attack – here’s what we know so far
Hospitals across Merseyside are cancelling appointments following a ‘major’ cybersecurity incident. Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral was the first to sound the alert, with patients asked to avoid attending the hospital’s A&E department except in cases of medical emergency, and outpatient appointments cancelled. The hack initially affected the Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust, which also manages Clatterbridge Hospital, and…
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Security incident recovery times are over 7 months on average
Organizations are taking almost a month longer to recover from cybersecurity incidents than they did a year ago, and 25% longer than expected, a Fastly survey has found. This year, businesses report taking an average of 7.3 months to recover from cybersecurity breaches, substantially more than their anticipated timeline of 5.9 months. And recovery times were even worse for companies…
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