Data Breaches

Change Healthcare Breach Impacted 190 Million Americans
Change Healthcare Breach Impacted 190 Million Americans
January 26, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

The biggest medical-related data breach in U.S. history was even larger than first estimated. The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare business last year impacted...

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PayPal to Settle New York’s Allegations of Cybersecurity Failures
PayPal to Settle New York’s Allegations of Cybersecurity Failures
January 23, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

PayPal will pay a $2 million penalty to New York state to settle the state’s allegations that the company had cybersecurity failures that led to...

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AT&T to Offer Bill Credits After Widespread Outages
AT&T to Offer Bill Credits After Widespread Outages
January 08, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

AT&T will begin offering customers bill credits for network outages. The new program, announced Wednesday (Jan. 8) in a press release and set to go...

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CrowdStrike Claws Back $30 Billion Lost to Mass Tech Outage
CrowdStrike Claws Back $30 Billion Lost to Mass Tech Outage
January 05, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike’s CEO says the company has turned last year’s crisis into an opportunity. A botched update by the cybersecurity company last summer caused a worldwide...

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Personalized Attacks, Scalable Solutions: The Payments Industry’s New Security Imperative
Personalized Attacks, Scalable Solutions: The Payments Industry’s New Security Imperative
December 18, 2024  |  Cybersecurity

The payments industry faces the dual challenge of enhancing user experience while combating sophisticated fraud. “There’s a lot of emphasis on doing things as frictionless...

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Yearlong Cyberattack Targets Security Workers
Yearlong Cyberattack Targets Security Workers
December 15, 2024  |  Cybersecurity

The year of the cyberattack is apparently not going to end quietly. For example, a report Friday (Dec. 13) by Ars Technica deals with a...

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Trump Looks to Go ‘On the Offense’ Against Cyberattackers
Trump Looks to Go ‘On the Offense’ Against Cyberattackers
December 15, 2024  |  Cybersecurity

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking for ways to get tougher on cyberattackers. That’s according to U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., Trump’s choice to serve...

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Rhode Island Benefits Portal Hit by Ransomware Attack
Rhode Island Benefits Portal Hit by Ransomware Attack
December 15, 2024  |  Cybersecurity

Rhode Island’s public benefits system has reportedly been targeted in a ransomware attack. Hackers breached the online system and have threatened to disclose users’ personal...

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T-Mobile Spots and Ejects Possible ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers on Its Network
T-Mobile Spots and Ejects Possible ‘Salt Typhoon’ Hackers on Its Network
November 27, 2024  |  Cybersecurity

Unusual activity on T-Mobile network devices reportedly alerted the company to a breach. And as Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Nov. 27), it is possible that breach was part of...

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