More Than 1 Million Texans Caught Up in CenterPoint Energy Breach, With Social Security Numbers Among the Data
For a month, CenterPoint Energy customers knew only that something had gone wrong. This week, a state filing put a...
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14 Charged, 187 Computers Seized in Texas ‘Laptop Farm’ Crackdown on North Korean Remote Workers: The Briefing
The Justice Department on Tuesday announced its latest move against North Korea’s remote IT worker scheme, in which workers abroad...
Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Giant and Food Lion Sites Go Dark After a Network Security Issue: The Briefing
The short versionAhold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based parent of five U.S. grocery chains, says it is dealing with a “security issue”...
One Web Host Hit, Nearly 70 Mississippi Government Websites Down: A Briefing on the U.S. Next Attack
When a shared hosting provider goes down, every customer goes down with it. Mississippi has been living that since Friday:...
Heart Monitor Maker iRhythm Notifies 360,000+ After a Social Engineering Breach: The Incident on One Page
Medical device maker iRhythm, known for the Zio heart-monitoring patch, has started telling regulators and patients that their information was...
Five States Now Suing TP-Link Over Router Security: The Case at a Glance, Plus a Router Checklist
The legal pressure on router maker TP-Link grew this week. On October 6, four more states filed consumer-protection lawsuits against...
FBI Takes Down Domains Behind Flax Typhoon Scanning and Phishing Tools: Your Questions Answered
U.S. authorities have struck at the tools behind one of China’s best-known state-backed hacking operations. Here are the key questions...
One Phishing Click, 1.3 Million People Exposed: Six Things to Know About the Arizona Courts Breach
Arizona’s court system has updated the public on a cyberattack first disclosed in late September, and the numbers are now...
Timeline: How One Insider Locked Thousands of Company Devices, and the 32-Month Sentence That Followed
Most ransomware stories start with a stranger. This one started with an employee who already had the keys. A former...
Ransomware Hits University of Illinois Chicago’s College of Medicine as a New Gang Claims Credit
The University of Illinois Chicago has become the latest large institution to deal with ransomware. The attack was confined to...
