Year in Review 2025: The major headlines and moments from Sophos this year
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Jessica Lyons reports: One of the world’s largest sperm banks, California Cryobank, is in a sticky situation.… It’s had to tell folks their sensitive information, including names and bank account numbers, was likely stolen from it by digital intruders. The IT break-in occurred between April 20 and April 22, last year, according to a notification…
MNGI Digestive Health, a multi-location gastroenterology practice in Minnesota, received preliminary court approval on May 7 to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from an August 2023 cyberattack. The incident was first reported on DataBreaches on September 25, 2023, but had been discovered by MNGI on August 25, 2023, after the BlackCat (AlphV) ransomware gang…
Pierluigi Paganini reports: Romanian Waters (Administrația Națională Apele Române), the country’s water management authority, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. According to the National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC), the incident affected around 1,000 computer systems across the central organization and 10 of its 11 regional offices. The attack disrupted IT assets, including GIS servers,……
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Moldovan law enforcement authorities have arrested a 45-year-old foreign man suspected of involvement in a series of ransomware attacks targeting Dutch companies in 2021. “He is wanted internationally for committing several cybercrimes (ransomware attacks, blackmail, and money laundering) against companies based in the Netherlands,” officials said in a statement Monday. In conjunction with the…
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DataBreaches missed this one, but The Daily Hodl didn’t. They reported on March 31: A US state tax agency has placed taxpayers’ personal info at risk by missing an extended data breach that lasted 18 months. The Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) says the breach happened between July 2024 and December 2025, per a new filing with the……