data breaches

The danger from a data breach is rarely the password exposed on day one. It is the detailed dossier that remains useful months or years later: a name, phone number, address, tax identifier, insurance history, medical report, email address and enough supporting documents to make a fraudulent...

Quantum Health says a May 29 vishing call gave an attacker access to its network, followed by file theft and a June 1 systems disruption—an incident that turns a familiar “train users not to click” problem into a more immediate test of how Windows, identity, and help-desk controls stand up to a...

ExfilSquad’s reported addition of 13 organizations to its extortion site should be treated as a claim set, not a confirmed victim list—but the group’s use of torrent-based publication raises the stakes for incident responders once stolen files begin circulating beyond a leak portal. The group...

Eyemart Express has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving customer information, placing a national optical retailer at the center of another high-risk privacy event where identity data, health-adjacent records, and purchasing details may have been exposed together. The company says it...