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What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students

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We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool is on track to be one of the biggest education data breaches in recent years.  PowerSchool, which provides K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students across North America, first disclosed the data breach […]

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Hacker accessed PowerSchool’s network months before massive December breach

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A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December, according to a now-published forensic report into the incident conducted by U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. In a letter sent to affected customers last week, seen by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirmed that an investigation into the incident has revealed that its

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Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations

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Japanese telecom giant NTT Communications (NTT Com) has confirmed that hackers accessed the data of almost 18,000 corporate customers during a February cyberattack, affecting an as-yet-unknown number of individuals. The Tokyo-based NTT Com, which provides phone and network tech to enterprises, said it discovered the data breach on February 5 after determining that the hackers

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Hacked health firm HCRG demanded journalist ‘take down’ data breach reporting, citing UK court order

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A U.S.-based independent cybersecurity journalist has declined to comply with a U.K. court-ordered injunction that was sought following their reporting on a recent cyberattack at U.K. private healthcare giant HCRG. Law firm Pinsent Masons, which served the February 28 court order on behalf of HCRG, demanded that DataBreaches.net “take down” two articles that referenced the

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Lee Enterprises ransomware attack hits freelance and contractor payments

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As disruption from a suspected ransomware attack on newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises span into its second month, the cyberattack is also affecting payments to freelancers and contractors who work for the company, TechCrunch has learned. The cyberattack on Lee Enterprises on February 3 sparked widescale outages and ongoing disruption at dozens of newspapers across

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Hackers publish sensitive patient data allegedly stolen from Australian IVF provider Genea

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Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack on Genea, one of Australia’s largest fertility providers.  Genea said last week that it had experienced a cybersecurity incident that led to sensitive patient information potentially being compromised. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Genea CEO

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US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people

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DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people. DISA, which provides services like drug and alcohol testing and background checks to more than 55,000 enterprises and a third of Fortune 500 companies, confirmed the data breach in a filing

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A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims

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A trove of chat logs allegedly belonging to the Black Basta ransomware group has leaked online, exposing key members of the prolific Russia-linked gang.  The chatlogs, which include over 200,000 messages spanning from September 18, 2023, to September 28, 2024, were shared with threat intelligence company Prodaft by a leaker. The cybersecurity firm says the

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UK healthcare giant HCRG confirms hack after ransomware gang claims theft of sensitive data

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U.K. healthcare giant HCRG Care Group has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident after a ransomware gang claimed to have breached the company’s systems to steal troves of sensitive data.  HCRG Care Group is one of the largest independent providers of community health and care services in the United Kingdom. The organization, previously known as

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