Sometimes we forget about breaches when they are out of the immediate news cycle. Here is a reminder that some ransomware attacks have long-lasting impacts. Athena Stavrou reports: Home to more than 170 million items, including Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the world’s largest and most impressive book collections. However, in October…
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…
Russian Police Bust Suspected Meduza Infostealer Developers
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Russian police arrested “three young IT specialists” suspected of developing and selling the Meduza credential-harvesting malware. Authorities from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, together with police investigators, charged the men with developing and supplying the information-stealing malware, and tied it to an attack that breached and stole data from…
Massive Great Firewall Leak Exposes 500GB of Censorship Data
Mathura Kayir reports: In a historic breach of China’s censorship infrastructure, over 500 gigabytes of internal data were leaked from Chinese infrastructure firms associated with the Great Firewall (GFW) in September 2025. Researchers now estimate the full dump is closer to approximately 600 GB, with a single archive comprising around 500 GB alone. The material…