The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd a combined £14m following a cyber attack in April 2023 which saw hackers gain access to over 6m people’s data. Stroud News & Journal reports: Outsourcing giant Capita has been fined £14 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to…
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In a few days, the PowerSchool hacker will learn his sentence, and his life as he has known it will end. (1)1)
In November 2021, when “g0retrance” defaced the website of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) with a message saying “PWNED,” the hacker, who also used the moniker “netsaosa,” left a message under it “should have listened to my emails instead of ignoring me … don’t worry, this is harmless. just to get ur attention :)” Boston.com…
Telstra Denies Scattered Spider Data Breach Claims Amid Ransom Threats
IT Security News reports: Telstra, one of Australia’s leading telecommunications companies, has denied claims made by the hacker group Scattered Spider that it suffered a massive data breach compromising nearly 19 million personal records. The company issued a statement clarifying that its internal systems remain secure and that the data in question was scraped from…
SonicWall Says All Firewall Backups Were Accessed by Hackers
Waqas reports: In September 2025, SonicWall reported a data breach of its cloud backup service, stating that fewer than 5% of its customers were affected. At the time, the issue appeared contained and under investigation. That changed today after SonicWall and incident response firm Mandiant confirmed that the attackers had accessed backup configuration files for…
Discord Confirms 70,000 Government IDs Exposed in Third-Party Breach
Divya reports: The popular communication platform Discord is confronting a major extortion attempt after cybercriminals breached one of its third-party customer service providers, compromising sensitive user data including government identification photos used for age verification. Threat actors claim to have exfiltrated 1.5 terabytes of sensitive information, including over 2.1 million government-issued identification photos. However, Discord disputes these figures, stating that…
U.K.: Two arrested over cyber attack which stole thousands of nursery children’s data (1)
There’s been an arrest in the Kido school cyberattack incident. itvX reports: Two people have been arrested after hackers stole information about thousands of children from a nursery chain. Two men aged 17 and 22 were arrested in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, the Metropolitan Police said. They remain in…