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Stanley Steemer says nearly 68,000 people affected by data breach in March

  • 7th December 2023
Carpet cleaning giant Stanley Steemer said nearly 68,000 people were affected by a cyberattack the company experienced in March. In documents filed with regulators in Maine, the Ohio-based cleaning business said hackers broke into its systems on February 10 and were discovered on March 6. “Stanley Steemer undertook a comprehensive review of ...
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Hershey warns of data breach following phishing attack

  • 5th December 2023
The American manufacturer of popular sweets such as Kit Kat and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups told regulators that more than 2,200 people were potentially affected by a data breach after hackers gained access to some of the company’s email accounts. The Hershey Company submitted a security notification to the Maine Attorney General's office on ...
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Microsoft warns of Cactus ransomware actors using malvertising to infect victims

  • 5th December 2023
Hackers are using malware distributed through online advertisements to infect victims with Cactus ransomware, according to new research. In a warning published on Friday, researchers at Microsoft said that the ransomware actor behind the campaign — which Microsoft calls Storm-0216 but others refer to as Twisted Spider and UNC2198 — had ...
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Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Cost US $78bn

  • 24th October 2023
Ransomware breaches have cost the US economy tens of billions of dollars in downtime alone over the past seven years, according to new research from Comparitech. The consumer awareness firm analyzed data on all known ransomware attacks affecting medical organizations between 2016 and mid-October 2023, looking at specialist IT news, data breach ...
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