Dutch News reports: There are “strong indications” that Russia was behind a cyber attack on the Dutch public prosecution department’s internal systems, justice ministry sources have told the AD. The affected systems contain sensitive information on ongoing police investigations and court cases, as well as personal data on staff. The department has not yet said…
Category: Hack
Paying cyberattackers is wrong, right? Should Taos County’s incident be an exception? (1)
How many times have we read that paying a threat actor’s extortion demands only encourages more financially motivated crime and doesn’t ensure that the data won’t be retained or re-sold or leaked? Those making that argument appear to be generally correct, but are there exceptions? For years now, DataBreaches has gone back and forth between…
IVF provider Genea notifies patients about the cyberattack earlier this year.
In February, DataBreaches reported that an incident involving Australia IVF giant Genea was the work of the Termite gang, who had posted proof of claims and also claimed to have 700 GB of files. Apparently, Genea still hasn’t revealed that to those affected, who only now are receiving notifications that their data was involved and…
France Travail: At least 340,000 job seekers victims of new hack
The following is a machine translation of an article that originally appeared in French by Sylvain Trinel: The public body that manages employment in France, as well as training and unemployment benefits, has been the victim of a “malicious act,” the third in less than two years. This is a new blow for France Travail…
PowerSchool commits to strengthened breach measures following engagement with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
July 22, 2025 – Gatineau, Quebec PowerSchool has committed to take steps to ensure that the education technology software company’s security measures are appropriately strengthened following a cyberattack that impacted millions of Canadian students, parents, and educators. The commitments follow an engagement with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to ensure that PowerSchool was…
Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
Ellen Nakashima, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Joseph Menn report: Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software to launch a global attack on government agencies and businesses in the past few days, breaching U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, energy companies and an Asian telecommunications company, according to state officials and…