Breach
Venture capital giant Insight Partners hit by cyberattack
New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners has disclosed that its systems were breached in January following a social engineering attack. The company manages over $90 billion in regulatory assets and has invested in over 800 software and technology startups and companies worldwide during its 30 years of activity. In a statement […]
Lee Enterprises newspaper disruptions caused by ransomware attack
Newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind ongoing disruptions impacting the group’s operations for over two weeks. As a local news provider and one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, Lee publishes 77 daily newspapers and 350 weekly and specialty publications across 26 states. Its newspapers […]
PostgreSQL flaw exploited as zero-day in BeyondTrust breach
Rapid7’s vulnerability research team says attackers exploited a PostgreSQL security flaw as a zero-day to breach the network of privileged access management company BeyondTrust in December. BeyondTrust revealed that attackers breached its systems and 17 Remote Support SaaS instances in early December using two zero-day bugs (CVE-2024-12356 and CVE-2024-12686) and a stolen API key. Less than one […]
Cyberattack disrupts Lee newspapers’ operations across the US
Lee Enterprises, one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, says a cyberattack that hit its systems caused an outage last week and impacted its operations. In a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said the February 3 cyberattack was behind the outage that impacted its business […]
HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is notifying employees whose data was stolen from the company’s Office 365 email environment by Russian state-sponsored hackers in a May 2023 cyberattack. According to filings with Attorney General offices in New Hampshire and Massachusets, HPE started sending the breach notification letters last month to at least 16 people who had their driver’s licenses, […]
British engineering firm IMI discloses breach, shares no details
British-based engineering firm IMI plc has disclosed a security breach after unknown attackers hacked into the company’s systems. IMI is a global engineering group with manufacturing facilities in 18 countries, focused on precision fluid engineering and providing services in the process and industrial automation, climate control, life science, and transport sectors. Listed on the London […]
GrubHub data breach impacts customers, drivers, and merchants
Food delivery company GrubHub disclosed a data breach impacting the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers, merchants, and drivers after attackers breached its systems using a service provider account. “Our investigation found that the intrusion originated with an account belonging to a third-party service provider that provided support services to Grubhub,” the company said on […]
Mizuno USA says hackers stayed in its network for two months
Mizuno USA, a subsidiary of Mizuno Corporation, one of the world’s largest sporting goods manufacturers, confirmed in data breach notification letters that unknown attackers stole files from its network between August and October 2024. Headquartered in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, Mizuno USA manufactures and distributes golf, running, baseball, volleyball, softball, swimming, and tennis equipment, apparel, and […]
Engineering giant Smiths Group discloses security breach
London-based engineering giant Smiths Group disclosed a security breach after unknown attackers gained access to the company’s systems. Smiths is a British multinational listed on the London Stock Exchange that employs more than 15,000 people in over 50 countries. It also provides products to customers in the energy, safety, security, aerospace, and defense markets and reported […]
Conduent confirms cybersecurity incident behind recent outage
American business services giant and government contractor Conduent confirmed today that a recent outage resulted from what it described as a “cyber security incident.” Conduent has over 31,000 employees and provides services to half of Fortune 100 companies and over 600 government and transportation agencies. These include nine top U.S. health plans, four of five […]