Alicia Hope

1 week ago | cpomagazine.com | Alicia Hope

The Co-op has confirmed that the April 2025 cyber attack resulted in data theft on a significant number of customers after hackers breached its systems. The UK retailer operates over 2,000 grocery stores, 800 funeral homes, and legal and financial businesses across the United Kingdom and select countries. “We now know that the hackers were able to access and extract data from one of our systems,” the company told BleepingComputer.

1 week ago | cpomagazine.com | Alicia Hope

UK retailer Harrods has confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack that stemmed from unauthorized access to its systems. The luxury department store said it was forced to restrict internet access as a precautionary measure after experiencing unauthorized access. “We recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorised access to some of our systems,” the UK retailer told BleepingComputer.

1 week ago | cpomagazine.com | Alicia Hope

Canadian power utilities Emera and Nova Scotia have suffered cyber attacks that forced the companies to shut down some business application servers. Halifax-based Emera provides electric and natural gas utilities to approximately 2.6 million customers across Canada, the U.S., and the Caribbean. It employs about 7,600 people and reported a net income of $849 million in 2024.

1 week ago | cpomagazine.com | Alicia Hope

The Interlock ransomware gang has taken credit for the dialysis company DaVita ransomware attack and leaked the allegedly stolen data as proof. With an annual revenue of over $12.8 billion, the Fortune 500 company operates over 2,600 dialysis centers across the United States and more than 3,000 worldwide and employs over 75,000 workers. The company serves over 200,000 patients at its outpatient and home care clinics across the United States.

2 weeks ago | cpomagazine.com | Alicia Hope

SK Telecom warns that a malware attack on its systems compromised sensitive customer USIM data, which could be used for targeted surveillance, tracking, and SIM-swap attacks. With a user base of more than 34 million subscribers corresponding to a 48.4% market share, SK Telecom is South Korea’s largest mobile network operator. According to a Korean-language data breach notification posted on the company’s website, the telecom giant detected the cyber attack at 11 PM on Saturday, April 19, 2025.