Tag: Data Breach
PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole ‘all’ historical student and teacher data
U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed “all” of their historical student...
UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months
Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned healthtech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said...
Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages
Russian internet provider Nodex said it was in the process of restoring its systems after a destructive cyberattack earlier this week that saw...
Chinese government hackers reportedly targeted US Treasury’s sanctions office during December cyberattack
Chinese government hackers targeted the U.S. Treasury’s highly sensitive sanctions office during a December cyberattack, according to reports.
According to The Washington Post,...
These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024
For the past few years, TechCrunch has looked back at some of the worst, badly handled data breaches and security incidents in the...
Ransomware attack on health giant Ascension hits 5.6 million patients
A May ransomware attack on Ascension, a U.S. healthcare giant with more than 140 hospitals and dozens of senior living facilities, allowed hackers...