Florida financial regulators have charged a Fort Myers insurance broker with taking out a life insurance policy on a person without their knowledge and misusing the person’s identification information. Bryce Corey Tyminski, 26, was arrested and booked into the Lee …
After a cyberattack on Christie’s auction house earlier this month, a hacker group called RansomHub claimed responsibility. In a post on the dark web Monday, RansomHub said that it had gained access to the personal information of the firm’s wealthy …
A Boston man has been charged with a fraud scheme in which prosecutors say he collected about $45,000 in unearned sales commissions on insurance policies he created using personally identifiable information stolen from individuals. The state attorney general’s office announced …
The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) will pay $300,000 for disclosing the health information of individuals who visited its website, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced. James said an investigation by her office found that the hospital used advertising tools on …
Okta Inc. has discovered that hackers who breached its network two months ago stole information on all users of its customer support system — a scope far greater than the 1% of customers the company had previously said were affected. …
State attorneys general were busy Thursday announcing their share of a $49.5 million settlement with software company Blackbaud related to a 2020 ransomware event that exposed the data of millions of people across the U.S. Blackbaud said it reached the …
The White House on Tuesday held its first-ever cybersecurity “summit” on the ransomware attacks plaguing U.S. schools, in which criminal hackers have dumped online sensitive student data, including medical records, psychiatric evaluations and even sexual assault reports. “If we want …
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 …
The American Bar Association said an unauthorized third-party gained access to usernames and passwords used by members to access an old website of the association. The ABA said in a statement there is no evidence the personal information obtained was …
