UnitedHealth Group ( ) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings this morning that fell slightly short of analyst estimates, while offering guidance for the coming year that indicated a roughly 2% decline year-over-year due to its right-sizing efforts payment increase for Medicare Advantage plans in 2027 that was far below what was anticipated. The market's response was immediate, sending UnitedHealth's stock tumbling as much as 15% in premarket trading this morning.
Germany's Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, or SKD) experienced a cyberattack on Jan. 21, according to a statement from The Saxon State Minister for Culture and Tourism. SKD is among the oldest museum networks in Europe and contains 15 museums. "Large parts" of the organization's digital infrastructure were impacted, as per the ministry's statement. However, its security system was not affected and remains fully functional, including physical and technical security.
AZ Monica, which operates hospitals in Antwerp and Deurne, confirmed the issues on Tuesday. It said seven patients receiving critical care had to be transferred to different nearby hospitals with help from the Red Cross so they could continue receiving the necessary treatement. All other patients continue to be treated at the affected sites. Its emergency department was operating at reduced capacity as of Tuesday, the day of the organization's last official update. According to De Tijd, 70 surgeries were cancelled on the day.
Poland's power system faced its largest cyberattack in years in the last week of December that also followed a different pattern, the country's energy minister said on Tuesday.
Small samples of the data hacked by the criminals shows it is likely to contain sensitive personal information, and residents should be wary of anyone claiming to be a council worker that asks for details. The council shares some of its affected services with Westminster City Council and Hammersmith and Fulham Council which were also impacted. All three are working with the National Cyber Security Centre to track the data.
La Poste and La Banque Postale were once again difficult to access on New Year's Day due to a cyberattack. The disruption comes just days after a similar attack disrupted parcel tracking during the Christmas period. The website laposte.fr and all information systems of the French postal company were hit by a cyberattack on Thursday morning, according to radio station RFI. The website and app of La Banque Postale, the postal company's banking division, were also largely inaccessible.
Privacy watchdogs in Ontario and Alberta issued their findings Tuesday after investigating a mass data breach of a student information system used across Canada, concluding that school boards lacked adequate breach response plans, among other issues. Ontario's privacy commissioner says PowerSchool, a software and storage company for school systems in the U.S. and Canada, was a victim of a cyberattack and ransom threat in December 2024 that compromised the data of current and former students, parents and staff.
Two teenagers have appeared in court facing computer hacking charges, in connection with last year's cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL). Thalha Jubair, 19, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall in the West Midlands, were charged with conspiring to commit unauthorised acts under the Computer Misuse Act. They appeared at a hearing at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, and spoke only to confirm their names.
Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) has carried out a brilliant cyber-attack causing more than 66 million rubles or around $88,000 in damages to the Orion Telecom. Orion Telecom is one of the largest providers in Siberia, a source from HUR told the Kyiv Independent. Orion reported the massive losses as they sent a complaint to Russian police following the spectacular cyber-attack which also led to personal data leak.
It said in a letter sent to those affected that their admission dates, financial account numbers and type, patient account numbers, medical record numbers, health insurance details, and medical treatment and claim information was stolen by cybercriminals. The usual personally identifiable information (PII), such as names, addresses, and dates of birth, was lifted too, as were Social Security numbers. The provider of
A major Japanese beverage producer says it has been hit by a cyberattack that left its operations disrupted for the fifth day on Friday, and Japanese media are reporting that stocks of the company's popular beer and other beverages are running low in some stores.Asahi Group Holdings said its computer systems were hit by a cyberattack on Monday, creating glitches that have affected orders, shipments, and a customer call center in Japan. Overseas systems were not affected.
Asahi Group Holdings said in a news release on September 29 that it was "experiencing a system failure caused by the cyberattack, affecting operations in Japan." According to several news outlets, the attack halted Asahi's production in a majority of its 30 production facilities in Japan, and the company has been unable to resume operations since September 29. In the release, it added that while no leakage of customer data had been confirmed, its order and shipment operations in Japan had been suspended.
Asahi Group Holdings, the brewery giant that produces the Japanese beer Asahi and other beverages, was hit by a cyberattack Monday that forced the company to stop production in its Japanese factories. The disruption is reportedly still ongoing, but with no timeline for recovery. Asahi Group disclosed the attack in a press release, saying it was experiencing "a system failure" that forced the company to suspend order and shipment operations, as well as its call center operations.
