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Illinois Secretary of State office impacted by data breach
The Illinois Secretary of State’s office is alerting Illinois residents about a recent data breach that impacted the agency. Last week, letters went out to roughly 50,000 Illinois residents about a “data security incident” that took place in early April.
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Nearly 400,000 affected by data breach at eye care management services company
Nearly 400,000 people had sensitive healthcare information stolen by hackers during a 2023 cyberattack on a company that supports eye clinics. Colorado-based Panorama Eyecare told regulators in Maine and Massachusetts that 377,911 current and former patients and employees had data stolen — includingnames, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, license numbers, financial account information, dates of service and medical provider…
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Club Penguin fans breached Disney Confluence server, stole 2.5GB of data
This week, an anonymous person uploaded a link to “Internal Club Penguin PDFs” on the 4Chan message board with the simple statement, “I no longer need these :).” The link goes to a 415 MB archive containing 137 PDFs that contain old internal information about Club Penguin, including emails, design schematics, documentation, and character sheets. …
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Ticketmaster Got Hacked
Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed “unauthorised activity” on its database after a group of hackers said they had stolen the personal details of 560 million customers. ShinyHunters, the group claiming responsibility, says the stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details from Ticketmaster users worldwide. The hacking group is reportedly demanding a…
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New York Times Got Hacked
A 4chan user has leaked 270GB of internal New York Times data, including what’s said to be source code and other web assets, via the notorious image board. According to the unnamed netizen, the information includes “basically all source code belonging to The New York Time Company,” amounting to roughly 5,000 repositories and 3.6 million…
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Foraging on Public Lands Is Becoming More LImited
Collecting wild mushrooms, berries and other foods from public forests and parks has become so popular that state and federal agencies are imposing more restrictions.
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The Mushroom Hunters Can’t Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi
For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi.
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Croissant mashups: A (not-so-brief) history since the Cronut
Ever since the Cronut, creative bakers refuse to leave the croissant alone. Here are the many ways they’ve mashed it up.
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Alligator flees middle school petting zoo, is found at school door 11 days later
“We are conducting our investigation on where the alligator has been since it went missing,” said a notice by the KC Pet Project in Kansas City, Mo.
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Elephants call each other by name, study suggests
Analysis of hundreds of calls — or “rumbles” — found a component that individual elephants recognized and responded to, according to a study in a Nature journal.