Pierluigi Paganini reports: The Clop Ransomware group announced the hack of the prestigious American daily newspaper The Washington Post. The cybercrime group created a page for the university on its Tor data leak site and announced it will leak the stolen data soon. The group claimed the company was breached due to its neglect of security, despite its…
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Hack exposes Kansas City, Kansas, Police’s secret officer misconduct list
Peggy Lowe and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team — broken TVs, missing cash, lost…
Swedish IT Company Data Breach Exposes Personal Details of 1.5 Million Users
Divya reports: Swedish authorities have launched formal investigations into a significant data breach affecting Miljödata, a prominent IT company whose security lapse exposed the personal information of over 1.5 million individuals. The Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) initiated the probe following the August attack, which resulted in sensitive data being published on the Darknet and affecting multiple…
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…
Landmark civil penalty of AU$5.8 million issued under Australia’s Privacy Act
Charmian Aw, Melissa B. Levine, and Ciara O’Leary of Hogan Lovells write: On 9 October 2025 the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) imposed an AU$5.8 million civil penalty on Australian Clinical Labs Limited, one of Australia’s largest private hospital pathology service providers (the Company), for systemic failures that led to the unauthorised access to…
Legal Aid Agency chief admits difficulties understanding impact of cyberattack
Jim Dunton reports: The chief executive of the Legal Aid Agency has told MPs that the organisation is still working out the extent of a cyberattack that was uncovered back in the spring. Jane Harbottle told members of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that a team of analysts is still exploring how much of the compromised…