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The personal data of thousands of UK military personnel was compromised in a severe data breach targeting the Ministry of Defence, sparking widespread concern. The breach occurred in a third-party payroll system managed by SSCL — a contractor tasked with handling sensitive government department

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies has turned the tables on the notorious LockBit ransomware gang by reviving and repurposing its seized dark web site. Originally taken down in an operation earlier this year, the site is now being used to tease and announce upcoming revelations

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued substantial fines totaling nearly $200 million against four major US telecom companies — AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint — for illicitly selling customers' location data without their consent. This landmark decision wraps up a lengthy

Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) revealed a troubling boom in vulnerability exploitation throughout 2023. Instances of vulnerabilities being exploited surged by over 3x (180%) from the previous year. It also uncovered a troubling increase in the use of ransomware and

Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, revealed how hackers penetrated Change Healthcare by using stolen credentials and taking advantage of a lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) in a troubling testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Large volumes of private health

Kaiser Permanente, a leading US healthcare provider, is notifying 13.4 million individuals that their data has been breached. The breach involved the accidental sharing of sensitive information with third-party advertisers. Revealed in a statement shared with TechCrunch, Kaiser Permanente mentioned

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) has reported a significant data breach. The breach occurred in February due to a successful phishing attack that compromised roughly two dozen employees’ email accounts, which then led to the exposure of sensitive personal and health

President Biden has passed a bill that forces TikTok to divest from its parent company ByteDance or face a ban. The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday, 24 April 2024, then President Biden signed the bill into law just a day later on Wednesday, April 25, 2024. The bill was included within a

UnitedHealth Group has acknowledged that a recent ransomware attack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare led to a massive data breach, affecting a "substantial proportion of people in America." The breach, one of the most significant in American healthcare history, resulted in the theft of sensitive

The US Senate has voted to reauthorize controversial surveillance laws, extending government spy powers for another two years. The bill, passed with bipartisan support by a vote of 60-34, extends Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), allowing the government to gather