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12127000067?profile=RESIZE_400xThe US Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments. Still, the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said on 15 June 2023.  But for others, among what could be hundreds of victims from industry to higher education, including patrons of at least two state motor vehicle agencies, the hack was beginning to show some serious impa

11420643683?profile=RESIZE_400xBritish Airways; Boots, a British health/beauty retailer and pharmacy chain; and the BBC are investigating the potential theft of personal details of staff after the companies were hit by a cyber-attack attributed to a Russia-linked criminal gang.   British Airways (BA) confirmed it was one of the companies affected by the hack, which targeted software called MOVEit used by Zellis, a payroll provider.  “We have been informed that we are one of the companies impacted by Zellis’s cybersecurity inc