Current and former AT&T customers may be eligible for a payout from a $177 million settlement connected to two data breaches.

Crime does pay. It’s the motivator behind ransomware and extortion scams and why the PowerSchool breach (in which data for millions of students was lost to a hacker) is now dragging out further ...

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district ...

The company reportedly paid a hacker associated with ShinyHunters $373,000 in Bitcoin to remove the stolen data and provide proof that it was deleted, according to Wired.

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being ...

This leak has cleaned up that data to remove internal AT&T information and added the unencrypted Social Security numbers and dates of birth to each customer record.

AT&T customers may be eligible for a portion of a $177 million settlement due to two data breaches.

A hacker who stole sensitive student and teacher data didn’t destroy it after getting a ransom from PowerSchool and is now asking for money from schools.

Prosecutors identified two hackers behind a massive AT&T data breach. Several other Snowflake customers experienced similar breaches.

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The attack against Snowflake was among the worst cyberattacks of 2024, with corporate accounts linked to AT&T, Santander, and Ticketmaster compromised, with Moucka and Binns reportedly making ...

Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records. Plus, some special shout-outs.