A new report cites insider sources in naming Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications and Windstream among the breached US telecom companies. The sources also state that the Salt Typhoon campaign may have started in late 2023.
German automaker Volkswagen suffered a massive data leak, affecting over 800,000 electric vehicle owners, with over half of EVs leaking precise location data.
Over 2.6 million people may have been affected by a massive supply chain attack leveraging over 35 compromised Chrome extensions to take over Facebook Ad accounts.
After five years of legal back-and-forth, Apple has agreed to settle the Siri privacy suit brought by California device users that found the voice assistant unexpectedly listening in on their daily lives.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018 is still not quite out of the news yet, as investigations around the world continue to wrap up. Australia's Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million AUD privacy settlement over the violations.
The state-sponsored hackers stole unclassified documents during the raid, but little else is known about what they accessed. The attackers appear to have obtained the API key from a third-party vendor called BeyondTrust.
A finalized FTC order directs Marriott and its subsidiary Starwood to implement a robust data security program within 180 days to protect personal information from exposure.
Law enforcement and cyber authorities in the United States and Japan have attributed North Korean hackers to the DMM Bitcoin crypto heist worth about $308 million.
North Korea's new record for stolen crypto, $1.34 billion, represents 61% of the total of about $2.2. billion stolen in 2024. Skilled state-backed North Korean hackers are almost single-handedly keeping numbers above the $1 billion level globally.
Krispy Kreme has disclosed that the December 2024 disruption to its online ordering systems resulted from a cyber attack later claimed by the Play ransomware group.
