04 Mar, 2025

Ransomware attack disrupts New York blood donation giant

​The New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the world’s largest independent blood collection and distribution organizations, says a Sunday ransomware attack forced it to reschedule some appointments. NYBC collects almost 4,000 units of blood products every day and serves more than 75 million people in more than a dozen states. It also provides transfusion-related […]

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PayPal to pay $2 million settlement over 2022 data breach

New York State has announced a $2,000,000 settlement with PayPal over charges it failed to comply with the state’s cybersecurity regulations, leading to a 2022 data breach. The Department of Financial Services (DFS) action says that threat actors took advantage of security gaps in PayPal’s systems to conduct credential stuffing attacks that provided access to sensitive […]

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