Data Security
Lansing Community College Data Breach Impacts 174,000 People
What happened Lansing Community College is notifying more than 174,000 people that their personal information was compromised in a data breach that occurred more than one year ago. The incident was identified ...
SoFi Confirms Third-Party Data Breach at Hong Kong Subsidiary
What happened SoFi Hong Kong confirmed a data breach after hackers gained unauthorized access to a third-party vendor database containing customer information from SoFi Securities (Hong Kong) Limited. SoFi discovered the incident ...
Meta AI Support Data Breach Affects Over 20,000 Instagram Accounts
What happened Meta revealed that more than 20,000 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked after attackers abused a vulnerability in the company’s AI-assisted account recovery support tool. The tool, called High Touch ...
Mercor’s 4TB Data Heist: When a Poisoned AI Library Exposed OpenAI and Meta’s Training Pipeline
A poisoned LiteLLM package led to 4TB stolen from Mercor, the AI training startup serving Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Class action lawsuits filed ...
Ex-IBM Exec Accuses Big Blue and AT&T of Covering Up Foreign Data Breaches
A former IBM cybersecurity executive in a whistleblower lawsuit alleges that the IT vendor and its cloud partner, AT&T, failed to disclose to government officials that their network was breached multiple times ...
Meta, Microsoft, DOJ, and Others Disrupt Southeast Asia Scam Compounds
The DOJ, Microsoft, Meta, and other international law enforcement agencies and private-sector companies launched a sprawling initiative targeting scam compound operators running various investment and cryptocurrency schemes, resulting in the freezing of ...
Anxious Security Pros Watch as Anthropic, OpenAI Expand Access to Frontier AI Models
Anthropic and OpenAI are expanding the number of organizations that can access their frontier AI models in hopes of expanding advanced cybersecurity tools to protect against the risks they raise, and security ...
How Noncompliance With CMMC Can Lead to Federal Fraud Charges
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) noncompliance is drawing heightened scrutiny across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) as federal agencies intensify enforcement of cybersecurity standards. Security leaders increasingly recognize that failing to meet ...
23andMe exposed genetic information of millions, lawsuit says
What began with stolen passwords ended with the exposure of nearly seven million users' DNA-related data, according to California's lawsuit ...
Threat Actors Abuse ChatGPT Chats to Host Fake Outage Page, Deliver Malware
Threat actors are using legitimate-looking ChatGPT service outage notices planted in the chatbot's content-sharing feature to convince users to click on a button to download the ChatGPT desktop app. Hitting the button ...
