UPDATE of January 16, 2025: I am stunned by the response to this post and the number of people asking me how they can file a claim or get help. This breach was in 2017. If you never filed a claim when the settlement was open for claims, it’s too late to file now. Read…
Christopher Brown reports: PowerSchool Holdings Inc. is facing three federal lawsuits alleging the education software provider negligently failed to protect the personal information of students, parents, and teachers that was exposed in a December data breach. Sheilah Buack-Shelton, Tyler Baker, and Kimberly Kinney alleged in separate complaints that PowerSchool breached its duties under common law,…
Lawrence Abrams reports: Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage’s built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links. With so much of our daily activities done from our mobile devices, whether paying bills, shopping, or communicating with friends and colleagues, threat actors increasingly conduct smishing (SMS phishing)…
Lucas Ropek reports: A former Disney employee who was fired for misconduct has admitted to hacking into the company’s menu creation software to alter key details, including food allergy information that could have been dangerous to customers at the resort’s restaurants. A complaint brought by the Justice Department last year claimed that a man named…
This article by Alexander Castro originally appeared in Rhode Island Current on January 10, 2025 and is republished here under Creative Commons License. It was updated to replace several paragraphs in the “Slow Leak” section to include a response Deloitte sent the author post-publication. Rhode Island’s online public benefits system appears to be a fortress…
On March 25, DataBreaches entered Teton Orthopaedics’ name on a monthly worksheet this site uses for tracking breaches in the healthcare sector. The entry wasn’t based on any report by Teton Orthopaedics or media, and DataBreaches had been unable to find any notice by the provider. The entry was based on a claim by the…