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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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…
Snowflake Loses Two More Bids to Dismiss Data Breach Plaintiffs
Cloud company Snowflake’s data breach litigation woes got worse as two bids to dismiss education and financial institutional plaintiffs from the case largely failed to convince a federal judge. The Los Angeles Unified School District was just one of the at least 165 companies and organizations which had their data stolen because cybercriminals hacked into…
US company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers
A.J. Vicens reports: Hackers working for an unnamed nation-state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. Ribbon Communications, a Texas-based company that provides technology to facilitate voice and data…