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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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OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for U.S. government agencies

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In a week dominated by headlines about China’s growing AI competitiveness, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies

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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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US indicts five individuals in crackdown on North Korea’s illicit IT workforce

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U.S. authorities have indicted five people over their alleged involvement in a multi-year scheme that saw them obtain remote IT employment with dozens of American companies. The Department of Justice on Thursday announced the indictment of North Korean citizens Jin Sung-Il and Pak Jin-Song; Pedro Ernesto Alonso De Los Reyes of Mexico, and U.S. nationals

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OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days

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OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company’s AI “agent” tool, for up to 90 days — even after a user manually deletes them. OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. However, the retention period for ChatGPT is only

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Passbolt raises $8M for its open source password manager for teams

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Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become

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Conduent confirms outage was due to a cybersecurity incident

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U.S. government contractor Conduent, which provides technology to support services such as child support and food assistance, has confirmed that a recent outage was caused by a cybersecurity incident.  Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents without access to support payments, to TechCrunch on Tuesday but declined to say whether the outage was

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What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach

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It’s only January, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has the potential to be one of the biggest breaches of the year.  PowerSchool, which provides K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students in the United States, confirmed the breach in early January. The California-based company, which

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Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in PowerSchool breach

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Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years’ worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach.  In a letter sent to parents this week, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said that the data breach affected all students enrolled in the district between September 1985 and December 2024.  The school

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HPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data

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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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