How do you know that the person on the other end of a phone call is really who they say they are? Earlier in July, a Ferrari executive was flooded with a barrage of WhatsApp messages that appeared to come from his boss, the carmaker’s CEO, Benedetto Vigna. But the Ferrari executive didn’t recognize the […]
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Energy giant Halliburton has confirmed its systems were hacked and that intruders “accessed and exfiltrated information” following a cyberattack last week. In a brief filing with government regulators on Tuesday, Halliburton said it was “evaluating the nature and scope of the [stolen] information,” and what data breach notifications it is required to make. Halliburton last
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We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of
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Laundry giant CSC ServiceWorks says tens of thousands of people had their personal information stolen from its systems after recently disclosing a cyberattack from 2023. The New York-based laundry giant provides over a million internet-connected laundry machines to residential buildings, hotels, and university campuses around North America and Europe. CSC also employs more than 3,200
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A person claiming to be a student in Singapore publicly posted documentation showing lax security in a widely popular school mobile device management service called Mobile Guardian, weeks before a cyberattack on the company resulted in the mass-wiping of student devices and widespread disruption. In an email with TechCrunch, the student — who declined to
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ADT confirmed this week that it was recently hacked, compromising some customer data. The home security company did not say when the cyberattack and data breach occurred, but disclosed that the attackers accessed the company’s databases containing customer home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers. In a brief regulatory filing published late Wednesday, ADT said
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U.K. data protection authorities have issued a provisional fine of more than £6 million to NHS vendor Advanced after finding that the company failed to properly secure the information of thousands of people later stolen in a ransomware attack. In a statement, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) said it issued the fine after determining
A cyberattack on Mobile Guardian, a U.K.-based provider of educational device management software, has sparked outages at schools across the world and left thousands of students unable to access their files. Mobile Guardian acknowledged the cyberattack in a statement on its website, saying it identified “unauthorized access to the iOS and ChromeOS devices enrolled to
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Cencora has so far notified over a million people around the U.S. that their personal and protected health information was compromised in a data breach earlier this year, TechCrunch has found. The pharmaceutical giant in May said that a February incident resulted in the compromise of patients’ data, which Cencora obtained through partnerships with drug
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HealthEquity is notifying 4.3 million people following a March data breach that affects their personal and protected health information. In its data breach notice, filed with Maine’s attorney general, the Utah-based healthcare benefits administrator said that although the compromised data varies by person, it largely consists of sign-up information for accounts and information about benefits
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