Cybersecurity

The education software giant Powerschool has started notifying individuals who were impacted by their cyber attack, and thousands of Massachusetts are among them.

Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying states about people impacted by a cyberattack — including that nearly 20,000 people in Massachusetts had Social Security numbers and medical records breached.

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Deloitte will pay the state of Rhode Island $5 million to help mitigate the impacts of the RIBridges data breach, WJAR-TV reports. The money will help pay for expenses related to the data breach, which impacted around 650,000 people. It is in addition to the costs Deloitte, as the vendor responsible for the RIBridges system, is covering. The governor’s office...

Tens of millions of students appear to be impacted by what is described as the largest breach of American children’s personal information to date.

As uncertainty hovers around the TikTok ban that could go into effect in the U.S. on Sunday, users are flocking to a Chinese app called RedNote.

An executive order issued by President Joe Biden just days before he leaves office aims to shore up America’s cyber defenses while making it easier to go after foreign countries that launch cyberattacks.

Freezing your credit is an easy way to protect yourself from identity theft and fraud. With the PowerSchool data breach impacting school districts in Massachusetts and across the country, cybersecurity experts at the Identity Theft Resource Center recommend safeguarding your children’s information now, before it’s too late. “In this particular instance, the single most important thing you can do...

With the PowerSchool data breach impacting students and their families, cybersecurity experts say you should take steps to protect your child’s information.

The Treasury Department says Chinese hackers remotely accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.

A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.

Rhode Island’s governor announced Friday that a state health care system was targeted in a cyberattack that may have resulted in personal information being stolen. RIBridges, part of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, is described by the agency as “a state-of-the-art eligibility system” used to determine if residents are eligible for state programs and Medicaid, and to...

The new Apple iOS 18 feature allows texting features between iPhone users and Androids, but U.S. officials are urging caution, citing cybersecurity concerns.

FBI and CISA officials said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

Concerned about the vulnerability of our mobile messaging systems, the FBI and CISA want Americans to use encrypted messaging to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers.

After a major cyberattack by foreign hackers, increasing concerns about the vulnerability of our mobile messaging systems, the FBI and CISA want Americans to use encrypted messaging to keep their messages protected — and common ways of communicating are affected.

Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

Several New England grocery stores, including Stop & Shop and Hannaford locations, are facing product shortages after their parent company’s announcement of cybersecurity issues. Customers told NBC10 Boston they noticed a sparse inventory of fresh foods like meat and produce, with signs thanking them for their patience as stores worked to restock. Ahold Delhaize USA, the parent company of...

Some stores are facing product shortages due to cybersecurity issues.

People have their personal information compromised in a data breach more and more often, impacting millions of people in Massachusetts.

You’ve probably received at least one notification that your information has been compromised in a cyberattack. In Massachusetts, about 2 million people have had data compromised in 1,900 incidents disclosed to the state.