Tom Schuba reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the…
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Canadian woman stuck since 2021 in Mauritius after passport withheld
DataBreaches can’t recall any recent cases in the news involving one spouse hacking another’s email, but this one seems a bit unusual. Geoffrey York reports: A Canadian woman says she has been stuck in the Indian Ocean country of Mauritius for the past five years, unable to return home, partly because Canada refuses to release…
‘People have had to move house’: Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack
Sometimes we forget about breaches when they are out of the immediate news cycle. Here is a reminder that some ransomware attacks have long-lasting impacts. Athena Stavrou reports: Home to more than 170 million items, including Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the world’s largest and most impressive book collections. However, in October…
Two years after an audit highlighted significant concerns, North Salem Central School District leaves sensitive student data at risk
From the Office of NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli: North Salem Central School District – Audit Follow-Up (2022M-140-F) Issued Date September 26, 2025 [read complete report – pdf] | [read complete 2022 report – pdf] Purpose of Review The purpose of our review was to assess the North Salem Central School District’s (District’s) progress, as of May…
University of Pennsylvania says it wasn’t hacked after a vulgar email was sent to campus community. They were wrong (1)
Update: And this, kids, is why we always say entities shouldn’t rush to claim they weren’t hacked. Bleeping Computer was able to validate some of the hackers’ claims. See their report, Penn hacker claims to have stolen 1.2 million donor records in data breach. Original report below the separator. Frederick Sutton Sinclair of CBS reports: The…
Veradigm’s Breach Claims Under Scrutiny After Dark Web Leak
Veradigm LLC is a health information technology company that provides software solutions to healthcare providers. On September 22, 2025, Veradigm filed breach notification letters with some state attorneys general. According to the notice, Veradigm learned that an unauthorized party accessed some clients’ data on December 15, 2024. The clients’ data was located in a storage…