Collaborate Disseminate
Christopher Brown reports: Flagstar Bank NA agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle allegations it failed to protect the personal information of nearly 2.2 million people in data breaches linked to Accellion Inc.’s file-transfer software. Class mem… Continue reading Flagstar Agrees to $31.5 Million Deal in Accellion-Breach Suit
The ITRC provides free assistance for victims of identity theft, fraud or scams Oct. 1, 2025 — The Identity Theft Resource Center® (ITRC), a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity crime, is availab… Continue reading The Identity Theft Resource Center Remains Open to Victims Amid Government Shutdown
Lawrence Abrams reports: Mandiant and Google are tracking a new extortion campaign where executives at multiple companies received emails claiming that sensitive data was stolen from their Oracle E-Business Suite systems. According to Genevieve Stark, … Continue reading Clop extortion emails claim theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data
David Hollingworth reports: The Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (LPBWA) has said it has begun notifying individuals whose data was compromised following a cyber attack performed by the Dire Wolf ransomware gang in May. “Following a comprehens… Continue reading Legal Practice Board of Western Australia begins notifying data breach victims
DataBreaches did not mention this publicly sooner because Kido was already under great pressure due to the breach involving children’s personal information and photos. But now that many people are feeling some relief that the hackers have suppos… Continue reading When it rains, it pours? Kido had a second incident to address
Joe Tidy reports: Hackers who attempted to extort a nursery chain by posting stolen images and data about children on the darknet have removed the posts and claim to have deleted the information. The criminals began posting profiles of the children to … Continue reading Hackers say they have deleted children’s pictures and data after nursery attack backlash
Fox28 reports: A Franklin County judge dismissed a lawsuit against the city of Columbus, which claimed it failed to follow industry standards and federal guidelines for data security. The lawsuit was filed last year after the ransomware group Rhysida c… Continue reading Judge throws out lawsuit against Columbus over data breach
The Times of Israel reports: The Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in the central city of Beer Yaakov was targeted by a cyberattack over Yom Kippur, according to a joint announcement from the hospital, the Health Ministry and the National Cyber Directorate…. Continue reading Leak of patient records feared as Israeli hospital hit by cyberattack demanding ransom
Lawrence Abrams reports: An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development respositories, with the company confirming it was a breach of one of its GitLab i… Continue reading Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance
Chad Van Alstin reports: Healthcare Interactive, a company that develops AI-based medical insurance benefit enrollment and billing solutions, confirmed last week that it experienced a data breach that involved personal data from customers being moved o… Continue reading AI-driven medical benefits servicer hit with data breach