TransUnion said a third-party data breach affected more than 4.4 million customers. The credit reporting agency revealed the breach in a filing with the Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday (Aug. 28). The company said the breach on July 28 involved unauthorized access of a...
The City of Baltimore lost over $803,000 when a fraudster diverted two of the city’s electronic fund transfer (ETF) payments intended for a vendor to another bank account. One payment valued at over $721,000 was retrieved by the city, while the other one valued at...
England’s financial watchdog wants residents to be wary of fraudsters impersonating the agency. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Wednesday (Aug. 27) that it had received nearly 4,500 reports of “fake FCA scams” during the first half of 2025. While the number of reports of...
Anthropic is warning of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in cybercrime. “Agentic AI has been weaponized,” the company wrote Wednesday (Aug. 27) in an announcement accompanying its Threat Intelligence report. “AI models are now being used to perform sophisticated cyberattacks, not just advise on how to...
When the British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) disclosed last year that a supplier breach had unleashed a ransomware attack, it was the kind of nightmare scenario every corporate board dreads. The incident disrupted logistics, erased more than 750 million pounds (approximately $1 billion) in...
Apple has reportedly patched a zero-day flaw in its ImageIO framework. That’s according to a report Friday (Aug. 22) by Dark Reading, which noted this is the latest in a string of zero-day vulnerabilities the company has disclosed this year. Zero-day vulnerabilities—unknown security flaws in...
Recent IBM research finds an “AI oversight gap” among organizations that had experienced data breaches. “Consider this: a staggering 97% of breached organizations that experienced an AI-related security incident say they lacked proper AI access controls,” the company said in promoting findings from its Cost of a Data Breach...
Human resources and finance platform Workday suffered a data breach in which fraudsters accessed some information from its third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform. The company was targeted by fraudsters in a social engineering campaign in which they contacted employees by text or phone, pretended...
Luxury retailers Pandora and Chanel were reportedly the victims of third-party data breaches. According to a report last week by CPO, Pandora is dealing with fallout from the hacking campaign targeting customer relationship management platform Salesforce, which has impacted dozens of high-profile companies. CPO said...