Welcome back to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s (ITRC) Weekly Breach Breakdown, supported by Sentilink. I’m James E. Lee, the ITRC’s President, and this is the episode for June 20, 2025. Happy first day of summer! Each week, we take a look at the latest news and trends related to data security and privacy. This week, we’re going to talk about a heads-up being issued by cyber threat researchers. However, we’re going to swerve into the rapidly changing cybersecurity policy landscape and ransomware group Scattered Spider – just for fun.

If you ask an artificial intelligence bot how many people in the U.S. are afraid of spiders, it will tell you that up to 50 million people suffer from arachnophobia. I’m not one of them, but I’m close. With that said, not all scary spiders are of the 8-legged freak.

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