That sound you hear? Lawyers everywhere preparing class-action documentation. It also admits: 'We may incur significant expenses in connection with this incident.' 'While we, like any other company, are unfortunately not immune to this type of criminal activity, we plan to continue to make substantial, multi-year investments in strengthening our cybersecurity program,' the paperwork states. In its statement, the carrier seemingly surrenders to the inevitability of more successful attacks. LockBit: Sorry about the SickKids ransomware, not sorry about the rest.Health insurer Aflac blames US partner for leak of Japanese cancer policy info.Royal Mail, cops probe 'cyber incident' that's knackered international mail.As if Elon didn't have enough problems – Twitter sued over leaky servers.While the SEC filing states the cellular giant feels it has 'made substantial progress to date,' news of the new incident suggests the program may not be achieving its goals. Which is why T-Mob in 2021 'commenced a substantial multi-year investment working with leading external cybersecurity experts to enhance our cybersecurity capabilities and transform our approach to cybersecurity.' November 2022 - Contributes to $16m settlement of 20 breaches at Experian that entangled T-Mobile customers.July 2022 – T-Mobile USA announces $550 million settlement of the 2021 breach.2021 – 48 million postpaid customers' records posted to the dark web.December 2020 – A mere 200,000 customer records describing network information leaked.March 2020 – Employee email accounts compromised, and customer details accessed.2019 – Over a million customer records accessed, some personal data exposed.

2018 – Two million records accessed, including hashed passwords.

Here's a summary of T-Mobile US's troubles: Updated, 10.33am, : This article was updated to include a statement from Sysco about its US and Canadian businesses being impacted by the cyberattack.But that program was made necessary by the carrier's flimsy security, which has seen it repeatedly suffer data breaches. Sign up for the Daily Brief, Silicon Republic’s digest of essential sci-tech news. This was much smaller than the earlier data breach this year, which impacted an estimated 37m customers based on rough estimates by the company.ġ0 things you need to know direct to your inbox every weekday. “Therefore, organisations must be proactive in implementing cybersecurity measures to avoid such incidents.”Įarlier this month, T-Mobile confirmed it suffered a second data breach this year, impacting roughly 836 users. “Incidents like this can cause both short-term financial damage and long-term reputational damage. “It is a distressing situation for the business, employees, and customers as they do not know who has access to their personal data and how it might be used,” MacKay said. Martin MacKay, CRO of cybersecurity company Versa Networks, said this is a “serious incident” as stolen data can be sold on the dark web, to be used for “further crimes such as fraud and identity theft”. “The investigation is ongoing, and Sysco has begun the process of preparing to comply with its obligations with respect to the extracted data,” Sysco said. In its US filing, the company said its normal business functions were not affected by the data breach, while federal law enforcement in the US has been notified. The company’s Irish subsidiary claims to be the largest food business on the island of Ireland, with more than 1,300 staff. The food giant has more than 71,000 employees and operates 333 distribution facilities worldwide, serving more than 700,000 customer locations. “The investigation determined that the threat actor extracted certain company data”. “Immediately upon detection, Sysco initiated an investigation, with the assistance of cybersecurity and forensics professionals,” the company said in the filing. In a filing sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission spotted by Bleeping Computer, Sysco said it detected the breach on 5 March but believes the infiltration started on 14 January. However, Sysco’s investigation indicates that only its businesses in the US and Canada were impacted by the data breach, according to a company statement shared with. The company has not revealed how many businesses or customers have been affected. The stolen information is believed to include business, customer, employee and personal data. Global food distributor Sysco has said that company data has been stolen as a result of a cyberattack earlier this year.

Sysco detected the data breach in March but believes the threat actor began their attack in January, with business, employee and personal data stolen. A 'bad actor' stole personal information from approximately 37 million T-Mobile customers in a November data breach, the company said on Thursday.

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