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Nick Hawthorne reports: Kootenai County has begun notifying residents whose personal information may have been compromised in a ransomware attack detected on the county’s computer network in late March. According to a Kootenai County press releas… Continue reading ID: Kootenai County notifies residents of data breach
Camellia Burris reports: One Middle Tennessee school district is delaying the start of the school year due to a data breach in its computer network. School officials in Sumner County discovered the breach in its computer network earlier this week and s… Continue reading TN: Data breach delays start of Sumner County school year
GovTech reports: The mega breach is back in 2026, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The nonprofit group, which works to prevent and reduce incidences of identify theft, found that 1,029 data compromises generated… Continue reading Instructure Incident Driving 58 Percent of Breach Notices in 2026
It’s happened. The nightmare of the future is now in our present. Or was this just old-fashioned negligence? Lily Hay Newman and Dell Cameron report: OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that en… Continue reading OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
Connor Jones reports: Authorities have long warned organizations not to pay ransoms, and fresh figures underline why: handing over the money doesn’t mean the crooks leave you alone. Proofpoint survey data suggests that 58 percent of affected UK o… Continue reading Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments
Milford, New Hampshire is a quintessential New England town. But charm is no defense against cyberattackers, and it appears that the town may have been attacked last week. As DysruptionHub was the first to report, the town began experiencing problems e… Continue reading Milford, New Hampshire Confirms Unauthorized Activity, Withholds Details of Suspected Cyberattack
Hannah Murphy reports: Nearly half of companies that are targets of a ransomware cyber attack end up paying a ransom to release their data or systems, according to 2025 research from cybersecurity group Sophos, while the median amount demanded is risin… Continue reading Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.
Colin Wood reports: At least one municipal government was among those to see their internet service disrupted after a cyberattack against a Maine telecommunications firm Sunday caused an outage affecting 23 towns along the state’s midcoastal region. A … Continue reading Cyberattack against Maine telecom disrupted municipal internet service in 23 towns
Seo Ji-Eun reports: The personal information of nearly all of South Korea’s diplomatic personnel is presumed to have been compromised in what the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called an “unprecedented” cyberattack, exposing up to 10,000… Continue reading Personal data of all South Korean diplomats believed leaked in ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack
One of the biggest breaches of 2016 was the Panama Papers leak. The law firm at the heart of it, Mossack Fonseca, closed its doors in 2018, unable to recover from all the damage. But while the law firm folded, investigations continued. The New York Dep… Continue reading NYSDFS Secures $50 Million Penalty from Swedbank for Withholding Information from Investigators