From the National Privacy Commission of the Philippines: October 27, 2025 10:57 AM Last Edit: October 27th, 2025 The National Privacy Commission (NPC) urges the public to exercise heightened vigilance following reports of data leak allegedly involving G-Xchange, Inc., operator of GCash, which surfaced online on 26 October 2025. The NPC has immediately launched an…
NY: Gloversville hit by ransomware attack, paid ransom
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UN Cybercrime Convention to be signed in Hanoi to tackle global offences
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Two U.K. teenagers appear in court over Transport of London cyber attack
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ModMed revealed they were victims of a cyberattack in July. Then some data showed up for sale.
Modernizing Medicine (“ModMed”) is a healthcare technology firm that provides Electronic Health Records (EHR) and practice management software to many HIPAA-covered entities. ModMed recently announced that on July 29, it discovered unauthorized activity in some of its computer servers. The servers in question contained data from some of ModMed’s podiatry clients, and the data was…
Toys “R” Us Canada customers notified of breach of personal information
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