British Library confirms customer data was stolen by hackers, with outage expected to last ‘months’

The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a notice sent to customers this week, which TechCrunch has seen, the British Library said that its customer relation management (CRM) databases were … Read more

DDoS attack revealed as cause of online service outage at public healthcare institutions

TU IS/Getty Images A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been identified as the cause of an online service outage that affected several public healthcare institutions in Singapore.  And the attacks are continuing, according to national healthtech agency Synapxe, which is responsible for the IT operations that support the country’s public healthcare network. This network encompasses … Read more

Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper blames cyberattack for ongoing outage

Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says a “cybersecurity incident” earlier this week was the cause of an ongoing outage, adding that the company is “working to resolve the issue.” The Texas-based company said in a statement on its website that on October 31, Mr. Cooper “became the target of a cyber security incident and took … Read more

MGM Resorts cybersecurity incident forces system outage

Folks stroll in entrance of the MGM Resorts Worldwide Bellagio Resort & On line casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Joe Buglewicz | Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs On line casino and lodging operator MGM Resorts shut down quite a few its laptop methods together with its web site in … Read more

Sq. says daylong outage attributable to DNS error

Sq. mentioned there was “no proof” a cyberattack prompted an outage that left clients and small companies unable to make use of the cost large’s know-how on Thursday via early-Friday. The funds know-how large mentioned in a autopsy of the daylong outage that the difficulty was attributable to a DNS concern. DNS, or area title … Read more

Twitter limits the variety of tweets customers can learn amid prolonged outage

Twitter is placing limits to what number of tweets its customers can learn because the Elon Musk-owned service suffers prolonged outage that has stymied customers’ capability to trace new posts. In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised utilization quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a most of 6,000 posts day by day, whereas unverified customers … Read more

AWS Outage Breaks Droves of Web sites

Picture: Tada Photographs (Shutterstock) Amazon Net Companies, the ever-present cloud computing supplier that’s accountable for supporting giant parts of the web, endured a fairly unhealthy meltdown at present. For apparent causes, that was unhealthy information for the droves of internet sites and corporations that depend on it to maintain issues working easily. Prime Day Ain’t … Read more