In a form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dick’s Sporting Goods says that they “discovered unauthorized third-party access to its information systems” on August 21. Dick’s activated their cybersecurity incident response plan and brought in third-party experts.

The real question is would they have announced it if it weren't required by the SEC. 

​The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced the takedown of the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware infrastructure. The takedown was an international operation, involving the dismantling of servers and domains in the UK, Germany, and the US. Law enforcement organizations in all three countries were involved. The ransomware operation has targeted 43 companies around the world.

​Microsoft says that an eight-hour Azure and Microsoft 365 outage on Tuesday, July 30, was due to “an error in the implementation” of their distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack response mechanisms. Rather than mitigate the incident, the buggy protection mechanism amplified the attack.

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