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Experts hack FIA site, access Verstappen’s personal information
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Experts hack FIA site, access Verstappen’s personal information

GP Blog reports: An FIA website containing sensitive information and documents relating to drivers, including Max Verstappen, has been hacked. Whilst this was not a malicious hacking attempt, the hackers were able to access sensitive personal information of any driver they chose. The FIA’s Driver Categorisation website contains the details of almost 7,000 drivers. The hackers, who breached the website in June, have stated they neither accessed nor retained sensitive information relating to anyone found through the hack and reported their findings to

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Montana Officials Looking Into BCBS Breach Tied to Conduent Breach
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Montana Officials Looking Into BCBS Breach Tied to Conduent Breach

Bank Info Security reports: Montana state regulators are investigating a data breach affecting 462,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana members involving one of the health insurer’s third-party services providers – and they want to know why nearly 10 months have gone by without notifying the breach victims. It took nearly four months for the insurer’s vendor, Conduent, to notify federal regulators about the incident that was detected in January 2025. The company said the breach affected a “significant number”

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Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost $2.5 billion, says monitoring group
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Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost $2.5 billion, says monitoring group

The Record reports: The cyberattack that disrupted production at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for more than a month is estimated to have cost the British economy £1.9 billion ($2.5 billion), according to a monitoring group. An analysis by the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), a nonprofit that aims to examine the cost of cyber incidents, said the attack is “the most economically damaging cyber event” to ever impact the United Kingdom. Earlier this month, JLR announced it was beginning a phased restart of

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John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt
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John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt

Kim Zetter writes: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained in it. The breach was reported last month by CNN following a law enforcement search of Bolton’s office and home in August. But it was based on

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