Columbus, OH

Rite Aid, the third-largest drug store chain in the United States, has reported a significant data breach affecting over 2.2 million customers. The compromised data includes names, addresses, birth dates, and driver’s license numbers, linked to purchases or attempted purchases made between June 6, 2017, and July 30, 2018. Notably, social security numbers, financial information, and patient data were not involved.

Rite Aid Data Breach Impacts 2.2 Million Customers

CBS Detroit

If you're one of AT&T's cellular customers, you can check your account to see if your data was compromised as part of the massive breach the telecom giant announced on Friday. If you were an AT&T customer between May 1, 2022 to Oct. 31, 2022, it's likely your data was involved, given that the company said "nearly all" its cellular customers' records were gathered by hackers during that time. The breach also includes records from Jan. 2, 2023 for a "very small number of customers," AT&T said.But customers can check if their data was compromised by logging into their accounts, according...

Here's how to learn if your data was stolen in AT&T's massive hack

The US Sun

SOME Americans have the chance to make a buck from a $1.25 million settlement pot. But there's only a bit of time left to get money back in the class action data breach settlement. ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics, a laboratory that focuses on reproductive health-related testing, agreed to pay $1.25 million...

Americans can claim up to $3,000 from $1.25 million data breach settlement – and you just need to answer a few questions

Fox News

A debt collection enterprise called Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) has been impacted by a massive data breach that affects millions of Americans.

Massive data breach exposes over 3 million Americans' personal information to cybercriminals

Lancaster County, PA

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NewsByJoshua

Fans of Frisco's Chicken were left reeling as the beloved Peruvian-style eatery announced the closure of all its locations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The chain, known for its delicious food and strong community values, posted a heartfelt note on its doors, informing customers of the devastating news.

Favorite Chicken Chain Suddenly Closes All Stores, Heartfelt Message Found on Doors

BGR.com

Months after the so-called “mother of all breaches” was uncovered in January, another record-breaking leak has been posted online. According to the Cybernews research team, a password compilation containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords (9,948,575,739 to be exact) was published on a hacker forum on July 4th.
The password compilation file from user ObamaCare is titled rockyou2024.txt — a reference to RockYou2021, which was previously the largest password compilation on record. RockYou2021 was a 100 GB text file containing 8.4 billion plaintext passwords.
Cybernews claims that RockYou2024 combines the previous leak with a collection of more than 1.5 billion new passwords...

10 billion stolen passwords shared online in record-breaking leak

AT&T on Friday reported a data breach that affected nearly all of its wireless customers. In May, AT&T reportedly paid a hacker over $300,000 in ransom – a third of the $1 million that was originally sought. Tied to AT&T’s hack and a prior data theft at T-Mobile is...

AT&T fallout ensues after massive data heist

A few years ago, I wrote a guide to help people protect themselves, and understand that most of the companies you have an account with already offer you tools to take control of your accounts’ security, even before you contact them for help, which in some cases you still should do.

How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

AT&T Data Breach Exposes Vulnerabilities in Customer Information Security. ShinyHunters Hacker Negotiates $370K Settlement with AT&T Over Stolen Data. According to PHONE ARENA, in a troubling turn of events AT&T has confronted a significant data breach that has raised alarms about the security of customer information. The breach spanning from May 1 to October 30, 2022, compromised metadata related to calls and text messages for nearly all AT&T cellular customers. This included interactions with users from other wireless providers. AT&T clarified that while the breach did not expose the content of communications or customer names it did involve sensitive data accessed through inadequately secured cloud storage.

$370,000 Bitcoin Payment: AT&T Confronts Massive Data Breach Exposing Calls and Texts of 100M+ Customers!

TIME

AT&T customers will be notified by the company if their data was compromised in the major security breach.

AT&T Customers Impacted By Data Breach Should Do This Now

TechRadar

American drugstore chain Rite Aid has confirmed that last month’s ransomware attack resulted in data theft.In a statement, the company said it was currently investigating the cyberattack, and is working on sending out data breach notifications to affected customers."Rite Aid experienced a limited cybersecurity incident in June, and we are finalizing our investigation. We take our obligation to safeguard personal information very seriously, and this incident has been a top priority," Rite Aid said. "Together with our third-party cybersecurity partner experts, we have restored our systems and are fully operational. We are sending notices to impacted consumers."
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Rite Aid confirms data breach following ransomware attack

Massachusetts State

ABC News

Attorneys general in Massachusetts and New Hampshire are warning residents of an "unprecedented" data breach they say could affect one-third of all Americans.

Officials warn of 'unprecedented' health care data breach that could affect millions

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

California State

Washington, PA

Poshmark alleged data privacy violations: Who’s affected?. If you made purchases from the popular consumer retail site www.poshmark.com and reside in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Florida or Massachusetts, you may be eligible to participate in a data privacy investigation. Please complete the form on this page to learn more. Online...

Poshmark data privacy investigation

Maine State

A Pennsylvania-based debt collector originally told regulators in April that a hacker compromised the personal identifiable information of 1.9 million people. Now the company says the data breach affected more than 4 million people and included patient medical information. Financial Business and Consumer Solutions in an updated breach report to...

4 Million People Affected by Debt Collector Data Theft Hack

Maryland State

NottinghamMD.com

BALTIMORE, MD—A healthcare data breach has impacted up to one-third of all Americans, according to a new alert from the Maryland Attorney General’s office. The breach, which occurred in February 2024 at the national electronic data clearinghouse Change Healthcare, also leaked sensitive health and personal data online, the alert said.

One-third of Americans impacted by massive healthcare data breach

ESPN Lafayette

In the latest data breach that we are learning about, close to 10 billion passwords have been exposed on the dark web via the RockYou2024 file release according to digital expert, Kim Komando. Komando says most people will see their passwords have been exposed. Industry experts say this dump of...

Stay Safe Online: Check If Your Passwords Were Exposed In Massive Data Breach

What will it take for victims of ransomware, extortion and other types of cybercrime to stop directly funding their attackers?. The latest breached business to pay a ransom to its attackers appears to be AT&T. The Dallas-based telecommunications giant is one of more than 150 victims of a campaign that recently targeted customers of cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake (see: AT&T Details Massive Breach of Customers' Call and Text Logs).

AT&T Allegedly Pays Ransom After Snowflake Account Breach

Kentucky State

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of medical data covering most people in the United States getting...

The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

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