Ninfa Saavedra reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against PowerSchool, a California-based provider of cloud-based services for K-12 schools, after an unprecedented data breach exposed the sensitive personal identifying information and protected health information of more than 880,000 Texas school-aged children and teachers, including Houston ISD schools. According to Paxton, PowerSchool’s…
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Jaguar Land Rover production impacted by cyberattack; Scattered Spider/ShinyHunters claims responsibility
Chris Vallance and Theo Leggett of the BBC report: A cyber-attack has “severely disrupted” Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicle production, including at its two main UK plants. The company, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, said it took immediate action to lessen the impact of the hack and is working quickly to restart operations….
Watchdog orders Lotte Card to compensate victims of hack
The Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Financial regulators have ordered Lotte Card to set up a dedicated call center for victims of a recent hacking incident and to prepare procedures for full compensation in cases of any fraudulent card use. The order comes after a cyber breach was reported at the company with 9.65 million individual…
A hacker used AI to automate an ‘unprecedented’ cybercrime spree, Anthropic says
Reading this, I kept hoping that we’d find out it’s just a hoax. But alas… Kevin Collier reports: A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes. In a report…
South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
A big monetary penalty was anticipated for SK Telecom after a massive data breach. Now we know how big. Muhammad Zulhusni reports: South Korea’s biggest mobile carrier has been hit with a record fine after a massive data breach exposed the personal details of nearly half the country’s people. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)…
Orange Belgium S A informs its customers about a cyberattack
Statement from Orange Belgium S.A. on August 20 2025: At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts. No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email addresses, bank or financial details were hacked. However, the hacker gained…