Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia’s national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency — including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic. The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going...

Update: And now add Seacoast Pathology, Inc. to the list.  You can find their press release here. Add another 10,000 to the approximately 20,000 described below, and the approximately 21 million disclosed last month. Original post: Add South Texas Dermatopathology, PLLC and Laboratory of Dermatopathology ADX, LLC (“LDA”), to the list of victims of...

AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Equifax is nearing a deal to settle a slew of state and federal investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed nearly 150 million Americans’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information. Under the agreement, the credit-reporting firm would pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission,...