Spy apps Cocospy and Spyic have a big problem. A security flaw in these apps is leaking personal data from millions of phones and tablets. This data includes messages, photos, and call logs. The flaw also exposes the email addresses of people who signed up to use these apps to spy on others. The apps are designed to stay hidden on a victim's device, secretly sending...
DOGE, led by Elon Musk, has been making waves in government circles. This time, it's all about an IRS employee with ties to DOGE getting access to a system full of sensitive taxpayer info. This system, called the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), lets IRS employees peek into taxpayer accounts. It's like having a backstage pass to someone's financial life. The...
The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is considering new steps which could greatly impact data breaches in the US. A prominent data privacy group has taken action on these steps. The group is suing the government and DOGE, alleging that the agency has led to an unparalleled breach. This situation highlights data priv...
Imagine a company has a huge problem but tries to keep it quiet. That’s what happened with Change Healthcare last year. A cyberattack hit them, stealing health data from over 100 million people – the largest medical data theft in U. S. history. Instead of shouting about it, they hid the notice from search engines for months. The attack happened in February 2024, cau...
Lowcountry schools are back to business as usual, but they're on high alert after a data breach at PowerSchool. The South Carolina Department of Education is helping out by looking into what went wrong. Something called personally identifiable information was compromised, and this isn't just a local issue — almost every school district in the state is affected. Scott...
Think of a big school software supplier, or maybe even one you use. Now imagine it got hacked, and some personal details were taken. That's just what happened. PowerSchool, a cloud-based platform for schools, got breached on December 28. Someone swiped two tables from their student info system, which held names, addresses, and other information from families and teac...
Last month, a shocking cyberattack hit PowerSchool, a cloud software used in schools. This attack compromised personal information of students and teachers in South Carolina. The state's education department is now digging deep to find out how many people were affected. PowerSchool admitted that someone got unauthorized access through a support portal using stolen cr...
You might have heard about the recent data breach where hackers snuck into a large education software company's system through a support portal. This company, PowerSchool, is now facing the consequences of hackers stealing important personal information like names, addresses, and even Social Security numbers. It's as if the hackers found a side door and walked right ...
Imagine this: US Treasury computers were hacked recently. It wasn't just any hacker, though. Officials say it was a Chinese state-sponsored group. Here's how it went down. A third-party software provider called BeyondTrust discovered something fishy on December 2. It seemed hackers had stolen a key used to secure a cloud-based service that Treasury uses for tech sup...
Imagine you live in Rhode Island and rely on state services for retirement benefits. Recently, a cybersecurity attack hit the state's main service system—RIBridges. This left hundreds of thousands of people’s banking details, Social Security info, and personal data vulnerable. Whoops! There goes your trust in the system. The state's Employee Retirement System, which...