In May 2024, DataBreaches logged an incident on our worksheets that involved the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York. The incident had been reported to HHS as affecting 29,629 patients whose name, medical record number, date of birth, provider name, and laboratory test result had been exposed between Sept. 11, 2023, and March…
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Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia
How much money enticed these teens to do something that may have just wrecked their future? Did they see it as just quick and easy money and no big deal? Alexander Martin reports: Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers. The boys, both aged…
ApolloMD notifies patients of 11 physician practices affected by a June cyberattack
On June 12, 2025, Qilin added ApolloMD to their darkweb leak site with a date of June 6. They claimed to have 238 GB of files. ApolloMD, headquartered in Georgia, is a business associate to hospitals and health systems, providing them with services to enhance clinical operations and patient care, and to optimize financial performance….
‘No Harm, No Foul:’ Courts Take Tougher Line on Data-Breach Suits
Angus Loten reports: A deluge of data-breach lawsuits has a growing number of U.S. judges insisting victims show exactly how their leaked personal data caused “tangible harm,” a high bar that is getting more cases tossed out of court. Judges are also requiring plaintiffs to trace any damages back to a particular breach—a tougher condition…
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
Great investigative journalism by Zack Whittaker on TechCrunch. First, he reports: A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section. The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as…
CISA Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices
This page contains a web-friendly version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices. CISA is aware of an ongoing exploitation campaign by an advanced threat actor targeting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA). The campaign is widespread and involves exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to gain unauthenticated…