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HPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data

Enterprise /

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is investigating a data breach after a well-known hacker claimed to have stolen sensitive information from the company. The hacker, who uses the alias “IntelBroker,” claims to have stolen a trove of data from HPE, the enterprise IT division of hardware giant HP.  In a post on a popular cybercrime forum on January […]

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DOJ confirms arrested US Army soldier is linked to AT&T and Verizon hacks

Government & Policy /

U.S. prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving U.S. Army soldier in December to a massive theft of U.S. phone records from AT&T and Verizon last year. Authorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius, a U.S. Army communications specialist, in Texas on December 20 following a brief two-page grand jury indictment accusing the U.S. serviceperson

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How victims of PowerSchool’s data breach helped each other investigate ‘massive’ hack

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On January 7, at 11:10 p.m. in Dubai, Romy Backus received an email from education technology giant PowerSchool notifying her that the school she works at was one of the victims of a data breach that the company discovered on December 28. PowerSchool said hackers had accessed a cloud system that housed a trove of

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Malware stole internal PowerSchool passwords from engineer’s hacked computer

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A cyberattack and data breach at U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool that was discovered December 28 threatens to expose the private data of tens of millions of school children and teachers.  PowerSchool told customers the breach was linked to the compromise of a subcontractor’s account. TechCrunch learned this week of a separate security incident, involving a

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Clop ransomware gang names dozens of victims hit by Cleo mass-hack, but several firms dispute breaches

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The prolific Clop ransomware gang has named dozens of corporate victims it claims to have hacked in recent weeks after exploiting a vulnerability ​​in several enterprise popular file transfer products developed by U.S. software company Cleo.  In a post on its dark web leak site, seen by TechCrunch, the Russia-linked Clop gang listed 59 organizations

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PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole ‘all’ historical student and teacher data

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U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed “all” of their historical student and teacher data stored in their student information systems.  PowerSchool, whose school records software is used to support more than 50 million students across the United States, was hit by an intrusion

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UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months

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Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned healthtech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said on Tuesday that the company has “substantially” completed notifying affected individuals about the massive data breach. The February 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, one of the biggest processors of patient billing

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Cannabis company Stiiizy says hackers accessed customers’ ID documents

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Popular Los Angeles-based cannabis brand Stiiizy has confirmed that hackers accessed reams of sensitive customer data, including government-issued documents and medical cannabis cards, during a November cyberattack. In a data breach notice filed with California’s attorney general this week, Stiiizy said it was notified by its point-of-sale processing vendor that an “organized cybercrime group” had

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PowerSchool says hackers stole students’ sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, in data breach

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Edtech giant PowerSchool has warned customers that hackers accessed its customers’ highly sensitive information — including student Social Security numbers, grades, and medical information — during a recent data breach, TechCrunch has learned.  In an FAQ obtained by TechCrunch that was sent to affected customers this week, PowerSchool says that “sensitive personal information” was accessed during

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Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages

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Russian internet provider Nodex said it was in the process of restoring its systems after a destructive cyberattack earlier this week that saw hackers compromise its network and wipe its internal servers, causing an immediate and complete collapse of internet connectivity to its Russian customers. According to data from networking giant Cloudflare, which monitors internet

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