In a classic “whoopsie” situation, a health data breach affecting members of the US House of Representatives and their staff exposed social security numbers, names of family members, emails, phone numbers, and home addresses, which are now for sale on the dark web. Senators and their staff were also affected, but…
Beleaguered password manager LastPass has announced yet another serious security screwup and, this time, it may be the final straw for some users.
America’s oldest law enforcement agency, the U.S. Marshals Service, is in a bit of security trouble. The federal police agency was targeted by ransomware hackers earlier this month in an episode that officials are saying involved a significant amount of “sensitive” data. Just how bad is this? While details are thin,…
A prominent DNA testing firm has settled a pair of lawsuits with the attorney generals of Pennsylvania and Ohio after a 2021 episode that saw cybercriminals steal data on 2.1 million people, including the social security numbers of 45,000 customers from both states. As a result of the lawsuits, the company in…
Reddit says that it was hacked earlier this month, in a security incident that compromised some company data. However, the company says that Redditors have no need to fear because user data was not impacted by the episode—at least, that the company knows of...“so far.”
