MAINE, USA — Hackers had access to Covenant Health servers for more than a week, stealing the personal data of thousands of patients. Covenant Health discovered the data breach on May 26. An investigation revealed the hackers had access to the health system’s servers since May 18, according to the Maine attorney general’s office.

A government decision to abruptly roll back subsidies for renewable energy from January has hit power producers, cutting payments from Vietnam’s state utility EVN for electricity they supply to the grid. Developers allege this is a breach of contracts signed from 2017 for a period of 20 years.

A council has apologised after a data breach saw a number of email addresses disclosed in error. Dumfries and Galloway Council is understood to have sent the addresses out with a customer survey from its planning department.

A data breach at Episource has exposed the personal information of 5.4 million individuals after attackers accessed systems for 10 days

The medical billing company Episource has begun notifying millions of patients across the US about a data breach that took place earlier this year.

The Ministry of Defence offered to expedite the review of a rejected resettlement application of an Afghan national after he posted sensitive details from a data breach on Facebook, the BBC understands.

Cybercriminals accessed Medicare data of more than 100,000 Americans by creating fraudulent accounts, prompting CMS to deactivate accounts and issue new Medicare cards.

On Friday, June 20, US District Judge Ada Brown granted preliminary approval to the terms of a proposed settlement from AT&T that would resolve two lawsuits related to the data breaches. The current settlement would see AT&T pay $177 million to customers adversely affected by at least one of the two data breaches.

Right-wing Republicans have also criticized the president’s stances on Iran and Ukraine, hinting at a broader fraying of his political coalition.

In a federal lawsuit filed in December, Blake Lively claimed that a mysterious Texas-based social media guru ran an untraceable smear campaign against her at the behest of Justin Baldoni. On Wednesday, a judge granted Jed Wallace’s motion to dismiss himself as a defendant in the case. Judge Lewis Liman made his ruling without prejudice, …