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A spokesperson said the information relates to an incident that came to light in November, when a threat actor demanded $150,000 for allegedly stolen data.

The Illinois Department of Human Services exposed personal information belonging to more than 700,000 state residents after inadvertently posting the data on the open internet where it remained for as long as four years before being taken down in September.

The owner of a Michigan-based stalkerware company pleaded guilty to federal charges for selling a product designed to spy on people without their consent.

Chen Zhi’s arrest is the latest chapter in the remarkable downfall of one of the country’s most prominent businesses, with holdings in the real estate, banking, entertainment and airline industries.

Administrators said the school would now do a phased return starting next week, after initially telling parents that it would open Wednesday.

The current system of accountability has left much of the British government vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a new Government Cyber Action Plan, with responsibilities for risk “unclear at all levels.”

The scheme starts with a fake reservation cancellation that impersonates a popular booking site, and eventually prompts victims with an error message and “Blue Screen of Death” page.

A cyberattack has forced a high school in central England to remain closed following the Christmas holidays.

The European Commission is looking “very seriously” into taking action against the social media platform X following an incident in which its artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexual images of a minor.

A cyberattack last year against the Catholic healthcare organization Covenant Health exposed the sensitive information of more than 478,000 people.

The campaign has been attributed to APT36, also known as Transparent Tribe, a long-running threat actor accused of spying on Indian government bodies, military-linked organizations and universities.

Regulators in Europe are weighing taking action against Elon Musk’s social media platform X after its artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexually explicit images of a minor.

The claims administration company Sedgwick confirmed that a subsidiary that contracts with a handful of sensitive federal agencies is dealing with a cybersecurity incident.

Two crew members of a Baltic Sea vessel have been arrested and two are under a travel ban after Finnish authorities boarded the ship following a subsea cable break suspected to be sabotage.

Disruptions in telecommunications services were tracked to fresh damage of Baltic Sea cables, leading Finnish authorities to seize a ship suspected of sabotage.

The Treasury Department has taken three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

Two Americans who worked for incident response firms face up to 20 years in prison for turning ransomware upon U.S. businesses.

U.S. and Australian cyber agencies confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability impacting data storage systems from the company MongoDB.

Two banks have informed regulators in Maine that recent data breaches were sourced back to a cyberattack on Marquis Software.

France’s data protection regulator has fined the software company Nexpublica France €1.7 million ($2 million) for poor cybersecurity practices in the wake of a data breach.