A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the company’s computer network after he was fired in 2020. Miklos Daniel Brody logged into the bank’s network without authorization, using …
DALLAS (AP) – Personal information for more than 8,000 applicants to become pilots at American Airlines and Southwest Airlines was stolen when hackers broke into a data base maintained by a recruiting company. The breach at Austin, Texas-based Pilot Credentials …
Indiana has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from state devices, its technology office said. The Indiana Office of Technology “blocked TikTok from being used in our state system and on our state devices” as of Dec. 7, office …
The Los Angeles public school system, the second-largest in the US, said an extortionist group had accessed a massive database but had not leaked as much sensitive information from it as initially feared. Student and staff data of the Los …
American Airlines says personal information of a “very small number” of customers and employees was compromised after hackers breached some employee email accounts. The airline said Tuesday that it has indication that the attackers have misused any of the personal …
A Worcester, Massachusetts, health care network says someone hacked into its employee email system, potentially exposing the personal information of thousands of patients. UMass Memorial Health notified patients earlier this month if their information was involved in the breach, which …
The Alaska court system said it is taking steps aimed at avoiding future cyberattacks, such as upgrading software and “investing in technology that can better protect our systems from intrusion.” The court system, in a statement, said it continues to …
The University of Colorado has reported a cyberattack on its software that likely exposed employee, student, health and research records, officials said. University President Mark Kennedy informed the campus communities Tuesday in an email of the “malicious cyberattack’” on software …
Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company, SolarWinds. Two Florida officials who have knowledge of the matter …
A Russian citizen has been arrested and charged with offering an employee of a Nevada company $1 million to sew malware for an attack to harvest company data for ransom, U.S. authorities said. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, was arrested Saturday …
