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University of Minnesota Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Negligence in Data Breach Incident

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data breach. Attorneys for the two …

Tesla Data Breach Blamed on ‘Insider Wrongdoing’ Impacted 75,000

Tesla Inc.’s May data breach impacted more than 75,000 people, included employee-related records and was a result of “insider wrongdoing,” according to a notice posted by the office of the Maine Attorney General Friday. A total of 75,735 people were …

42,000 Vermonters Affected by MOVEit Data Breach

The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation reports that the large-scale data security breach of the MOVEit software has compromised the personally identifiable information of roughly 42,000 Vermonters and more than 38 million consumers nationwide. The breach occurred when CLOP Ransomware …

Connecticut School District Has Recouped Half of $6 Million Lost in Cyber Attack

The city of New Haven lost more than $6 million in multiple cyberattacks on its public school district earlier this summer and has so far managed to recoup about half of the money, officials announced last week. The thefts, which …

MOVEit Cyber Hack Spawned Around 600 Breaches but Isn’t Done Yet

A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress …

Average Cost of a Data Breach Has Reached an All-Time High: IBM Report

According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report, 2023 set an all-time high record with the global average data breach cost reaching $4.45 million, a 2.3% increase from 2022 and a 15.3% from 2020. The 2023 research, conducted independently …

Russian Cyber Gang’s Global Hack Exposes Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles Records

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Louisianans whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach that affected the state`s Office of Motor Vehicles last month, will receive one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection, Gov. John …

Ransomware Criminals Are Dumping Kids’ Private Files Online After School Hacks

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts. “Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked …

Siemens and UCLA Say Data Compromised in MOVEit Data Breach

Siemens Energy and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) said on Tuesday they were among victims of the MOVEit hack that has affected scores of corporations, governments and other institutions in recent weeks. The hackers behind the wide-ranging breach, …

SolarWinds Executives Receive Wells Notice From SEC

SolarWinds said on Friday some of its former and current executives had been issued a Wells notice by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a massive 2020 data breach tied to the software firm. A Wells notice does not …