In a significant cybersecurity incident this week, scammers exploited a breach in the New York state text message alert system, sending 166,000 scam texts to residents across the state. This event, ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers received scam texts after their state's official text messaging system was breached by hackers, according to a report from NBC News. New York’s Office ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – The state’s NY-Alert app was hacked last week, sending a message about a bogus transaction to the phones of tens of thousands of people signed up to get emergency notifications, state ...