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Phil Tenser reports: A cybersecurity attack is affecting several Massachusetts towns that share a regional emergency communications center. The cyberattack affecting the Patriot Regional Emergency Communications Center and associated towns was identifi… Continue reading ‘Serious cyberattack’ impacts phones, public safety systems in several Massachusetts towns
Robbie Meredith reports: An IT system used by schools across Northern Ireland has been targeted in a cyber attack, the Education Authority (EA) has said. On Thursday, schools received a message that as part of “work to manage an IT security issue… Continue reading UK: School IT system targeted in cyber attack ahead of exam season
Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer, and Lily Hay Newman report: Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite,… Continue reading Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
Abraham Jewett reports: The Cherry Creek School District sent a message to families recently after some students received a notice about a class action settlement over a 2024 data breach involving the web-based education platform Naviance. The school d… Continue reading Questions raised after Cherry Creek students notified of data breach, lawsuit
BakerHostetler’s annual report, which shares their experiences as a law firm representing data breach clients, is always one of my favorite reads, and their 2026 Data Security Incident Response Report does not disappoint. As always, it is chock-f… Continue reading BakerHostetler’s 2026 report: Findings from 1,250 clients’ breach experiences in 2025
Politico reported: The European Commission is investigating a cyber attack on its websites, with early findings suggesting that some data was taken, it said Friday. The EU executive said it discovered the attack on Tuesday and took “immediate steps” to… Continue reading European Commission investigates cyber attack on its websites; CERT-EU publishes recommendations
Chad van Alstin reports: A hospital in Texas revealed that it’s fallen victim to a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 257,000 patients to hackers. Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital—an independent health system in Texas consistin… Continue reading Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital notifies 257,073 after January data breach
When criminals store or host data on U.S. servers, victims may get lucky. This is one of those situations. Matthew Sockol reports that data from the town of Apex in North Carolina had been stolen in an attempted ransomware attack in July 2024. The data… Continue reading Apex recovers stolen personal data after about 22K impacted in cyberattack: Town
From the Garante’s press release, below, it sounds like the banking group experienced an insider-wrongdoing breach in which an employee improperly accessed 3,573 customer accounts over a period of two years. Data breach: The Italian Data Protect… Continue reading Italy’s data protection regulator fined Intesa Sanpaolo €31.8 million over insider data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: American toy-making giant Hasbro has confirmed a cyberattack, and the company says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved. The owner of properties including Transformers, Peppa Pig, and Dungeons & Dragon… Continue reading Toymaker Hasbro says it may take weeks to recover from cyberattack