Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AT&T’s $177M Data Breach Settlement Wins US Court Approval
Jun 23 2025 // A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177-million settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom...
Insurer Aflac Investigating Possible Data Breach
Jun 20 2025 // Health and life insurer Aflac on Friday said it is investigating a breach on its U.S. network that may have exposed customers’ personal information, making it the latest insurance provider to be targeted in a...
Krispy Kreme Starts Notifying Over 160,000 People Affected by Data Breach
Jun 19 2025 // Krispy Kreme released new information about its late 2024 data breach and said it is notifying affected individuals—many of them current or former employees, and their families. According to a post on its website and a...
People Moves: Aon Promotes Rieth to Global Cyber Leader
Jun 19 2025 // Aon Promotes Rieth to Global Cyber Leader Aon plc, headquartered in London, promoted Brent Rieth to global cyber leader within Commercial Risk Solutions. Brent Rieth Rieth, based in Chicago, Illinois, currently serves as...
UBS Confirms Data Stolen After Hack at External Supplier
Jun 19 2025 // UBS Group AG said that information about the company had been stolen in a cyber attack on one of its suppliers, following a report a Swiss newspaper that data on more than 130,000 employees had been subject to a...
Viasat Identified as Victim in Sweeping Phone Hack Tied to China
Jun 18 2025 // Viasat Inc. is the latest US communications company identified as a victim of the sweeping surveillance hack blamed on the Chinese government that emerged during last year’s presidential campaign, according to people...
People Moves: Hamilton Re and Hamilton Global Specialty Announce CEO Appointments, as Graves Retires; Aon Promotes Rieth to Global Cyber Leader
Jun 18 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Hamilton Re and Hamilton Global Specialty as well as Aon. A summary of these new hires follows here. Hamilton Re, Hamilton Global Specialty Name New CEOs,...
Erie Insurance: ‘No Evidence’ of Ransomware in Network Outage
Jun 18 2025 // Erie Insurance said it has “seen no evidence of ransomware and there is no indication of ongoing threat actor activity” in a June 17 update on its 10-day long network outage. That statement would appear to...
Texas Department of Transportation Data Breach Exposes 300K Crash Records
Jun 17 2025 // The Texas Department of Transportation said a compromise of an account led to a data breach of a large number of crash records. On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information System (CRIS)...
Erie Insurance Facing 2 Class Actions Claiming Data Breach
Jun 17 2025 // Not one but two class action lawsuits have been filed against Erie Insurance even as the insurer continues to investigate its cybersecurity incident. One lawsuit was filed by an Illinois customer, Neil Plascencia; the...
Washington Post Probes Hack of Journalist Email Accounts
Jun 16 2025 // The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack on the email accounts of some journalists, prompting the newspaper to beef up its online security. The intrusion was discovered late Thursday and the company carried out a...
Canada’s WestJet Probes Cybersecurity Incident Affecting App and Internal Systems
Jun 16 2025 // Canada’s WestJet Airlines is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted access to its mobile app and some internal systems, affecting an undisclosed number of users, the airlines said in a statement on...
Tackling Cyber Risks: The Vital Role of Brokers in Third-Party Data Protection
Jun 16 2025 // Last year’s global IT outage due to CrowdStrike’s faulty update disrupted hundreds of businesses and essential services across multiple countries, pointedly illustrating a growing threat to organizations...
UK Risk Managers Identify ‘Tech, AI and Cyber’ as Top Concern in AIRMIC Survey
Jun 12 2025 // UK risk managers identified five key themes that could affect their businesses, topped by “technology, AI and cyber,” according to AIRMIC, the British risk management group, which conducted a survey of its...
Whole Foods Supplier Hack Leaves Empty Shelves, Stalls Forklifts
Jun 11 2025 // United Natural Foods Inc., a grocery distributor for Amazon Inc.’s Whole Foods Market, is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted its operations,...
After 46-Day Cyberattack Pause, British Retailer M&S Resumes Online Orders
Jun 10 2025 // British retailer Marks & Spencer resumed taking online orders for clothing lines on Tuesday after a 46-day hiatus following a cyberattack. Shares in M&S, one of the best-known names in British business, were up...
Whole Foods Supplier United Natural Foods Says Cyber Incident Disrupted Operations
Jun 10 2025 // United Natural Foods Inc., one of the largest U.S. grocery distributors whose clients include Whole Foods, took certain systems offline in recent days after the discovery of unauthorized activity on internal networks, the...
Chinese Hackers, User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a ‘Mobile Security Crisis’
Jun 9 2025 // Cybersecurity investigators noticed a highly unusual software crash — it was affecting a small number of smartphones belonging to people who worked in government, politics, tech and journalism. The crashes, which began...
Cyber Incidents in Canada Triple in 2 Years: QBE Research
Jun 6 2025 // Significant cyber incidents have tripled in two years in Canada, driven by technological, socioeconomic and geopolitical factors such as the war in Ukraine, according to research from commercial insurer QBE. Disruptive,...
Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches
Jun 5 2025 // Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating the country’s attackers penetrated the US communications system earlier...
