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MGM Resorts settles lawsuits after millions of customer records stolen in data breaches

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Hotel and casino giant MGM Resorts has agreed to pay $45 million to settle more than a dozen class action lawsuits after hackers stole personal data on millions of customers in two separate cyberattacks. MGM agreed to the settlement on January 21, according to a recent court filing, as first reported by The Record. A […]

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Engineering giant Smiths Group says hackers accessed its systems during cyberattack

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U.K.-based engineering giant Smiths Group has confirmed a cybersecurity incident involving “unauthorized access” to its systems. The London-listed company, which operates across multiple sectors including energy, security, aerospace and defense, said Tuesday that it is currently “managing” the incident. The company said it isolated affected systems and activated its business continuity plans, implying a disruptive

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PowerSchool begins notifying students and teachers after massive data breach

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U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has begun notifying individuals affected by a December 2024 data breach that likely affects millions of students and teachers across North America. PowerSchool said in a brief update on Monday that it had started the process of filing legally required regulatory notifications following the breach, which saw attackers use a stolen

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ENGlobal says hackers accessed ‘sensitive personal’ data during cyberattack

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U.S. engineering firm ENGlobal has confirmed that hackers accessed “sensitive personal information” from its systems during a November 2024 cyberattack. ENGlobal, which provides engineering and automation services to the federal government and critical infrastructure organizations, said in an updated 8-K filing with the U.S. securities regulator on Monday that hackers subsequently “encrypted some of its

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SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a new zero-day bug to breach customer networks

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Cybersecurity company SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in one of its enterprise products to break into its customers’ corporate networks.  SonicWall said in an advisory that the vulnerability in its SMA1000 remote access appliance, which companies use to allow their employees to remotely log in to their corporate networks as if

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Hackers are targeting machine identities. Token Security just raised $20M to stop them

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The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI – and it’s posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app Okta was caused by exploiting a service account while in 2024, Microsoft disclosed a major

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How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

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A February 2024 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare stands as the largest data breach of health and medical data in U.S. history. Change Healthcare confirmed in January 2025 that its data breach affects approximately 190 million people in America, almost double the company’s previous estimate. The company said it has notified

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TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data

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U.K. telecoms giant TalkTalk has confirmed that it is investigating a data breach after a hacker claimed to have stolen the personal information of millions of customers. In a post on a popular cybercrime forum seen by TechCrunch, an individual using the alias “b0nd” claimed to have stolen the personal data of more than 18.8

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UnitedHealth confirms 190 million Americans affected by Change Healthcare data breach

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UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates. The U.S. health insurance giant confirmed the latest number to TechCrunch on Friday after the markets closed. “Change Healthcare has determined the estimated total number of individuals impacted by the

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