Happy Friday! Here’s your cybersecurity news recap for the week:
The CEO of the cybersecurity firm, Veritaco, has been arrested and charged with installing malware on St. Anthony Hospital computers in Oklahoma City in August of last year.
He was confronted by hospital staff after being captured displaying suspicious behavior including attempting to enter offices and using staff-only computers. Upon investigating the computers, the hospital detected malware which was designed to take screenshots every 20 minutes and send them to an external IP.
Due to this violation of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes act, Veritaco’s CEO, Jeffrey Bowie, could face various fines and imprisonment if convicted.
(–Source: Cyber Security News
Read More: Cyber Security Company CEO Arrested for Installing Malware Onto Hospital Computers )
South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, SK Telecom, shared a statement this week that a cyberattack involving malware on the company had resulted in a data leak. Following this announcement, the company’s shares fell 8.5% on Monday.
SK Telecom is offering free USIM replacements and protection services to all 23 million users following the incident.
(–Source: Reuters on MSN
Read More: SK Telecom shares plunge after data breach due to cyberattack )
Employee benefits company, VeriSource Services, experienced a data breach in February of last year that exposed sensitive personal information including, names, addresses, birthdates, gender, and Social Security numbers belonging to 4 million people.
The investigation began immediately following the discovery of the incident in late February 2024 and concluded in April of 2025, revealing the full extent of the breach. Affected individuals are being offered free identity theft and credit monitoring protection for 1 year.
(–Source: CNET
Read More: 4 Million SSNs May Have Been Leaked in Employee Benefits Company Breach. Are You One of Them? – CNET )
Popular British retailer, Marks & Spencer, has been struggling to recover from a large cyber-attack for the past week after the company’s website and app were forced to be taken offline due to the incident, causing the company to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of revenue and stock market value.
Online ordering is still unavailable, but customers can shop in-store as usual, despite the retailer experiencing low stock and empty shelves. A hacking group known as Scattered Spider, which uses ransomware to target large companies, is being linked to the incident, but there are no details yet about whether M&S is being held to ransom.
(–Source: Daily Express on MSN
Read More: Hacking group linked to M&S cyber attack as retailer still reeling from ‘cyber incident’ )
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois has issued a statement to patients warning that an unauthorized third party may have accessed the company’s systems and personal information sometime between late last year and early this year.
Little appears to be known about this incident at this time, but the insurer is offering one year of free identity theft protection services to affected customers.
(–Source: ABC 7 Chicago
Read More: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois warn of data breach – ABC7 Chicago )
