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The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Hackers Breach ZoneAlarm's Forum Site ' Outdated vBulletin to Blame

ZoneAlarm, an internet security software company owned by Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach exposing data of its …

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

How Cloud-Based Automation Can Keep Business Operations Secure

The massive data breach at Capital One ' America's seventh-largest bank, according to revenue ' has challenged many common assumptions about cloud computing fo…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Railway Says Stolen Customer AI Keys Led to $740,000 in Estimated Unauthorized Usage Charges

AI provider keys that customers stored on Railway were stolen in an October breach and used to commit an estimated $740,000 in unauthorized spending, the platf…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

HIPAA Enforcement by State Attorneys General

HIPAA Journal has a convenient table of HIPAA enforcement actions by state attorneys general. Most entries involve violations of the Security Rule and/or HITEC…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’

Tess Ikonomou and Josh Butler report: OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach, but the prime minister has flagged changes to Aust…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

5 Active Cyber Threats That Put US Enterprises at Risk in October 2026

October 2026 brought another wave of cyber threats targeting US businesses, with attackers exploiting trusted platforms, legitimate authentication processes, a…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Hackers steal 320,000 UK school files and publish them on dark web

Nicole Wootton-Cane reports: At least 320,000 school files stolen during a cyber attack on Bristol City Council’s servers have been found posted to the dark we…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

mSecure password manager hack prompts password reset warnings

mSeven Software is warning current and former mSecure password manager customers to change passwords, reset two-factor authentication, and remove passkeys foll…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

AU: Criminal investigation after NSW Health hit by cyber breach

Richard Wood reports: A major cyber breach has been declared at NSW Health, but officials say patient data has not been affected. A spokesperson for Cyber Secu…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app

Developer platform WorkOS suffered a data breach after a threat actor accessed business contact records and summaries of customer communications.…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Synology NAS Devices Targeted in Ransomware Attacks Exploiting Patched DSM Flaw

Synology is urging customers to update the DiskStation Manager (DSM) software powering its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices following ransomware attacks.…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Hackers hit UNM hospital, then apologize and offer patients $2,500. In a new statement, they reveal more about the incident.

In more than 20 years of blogging about breaches, DataBreaches has never seen ransomware threat actors offer monetary compensation to patients affected by thei…

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DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles Ransomware Investigation of Lehigh Valley Health Network

DataBreaches.net previously covered the 2023 Lehigh Valley Health Network breach by AlphV (aka “BlackCat”). The breach garnered a lot of public attention when …

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Russia's statistics agency confirms cyberattack claimed by Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers

An alliance of Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed to have taken out Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, and stolen vast amounts of sensitive…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Florida warns that 4.9 million people had Social Security numbers leaked in financial aid site breach

The state’s Department of Education (FLDOE) said on Thursday it became aware of a data breach involving the Florida Student Financial Aid website on October 19.

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Between alerts: What Attackers Do in the Spaces Ordinary Detection Misses

Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network …

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware …

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Machine speed attacks require machine speed detection and response

Attackers can steal credentials and begin exfiltrating data within minutes, often before security teams can respond. Exaforce examines real-world attacks invol…

GitHub

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

23andMe successor settles with California for $6 million over cybersecurity failings

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement under which 23andMe's successor will pay $6 million to resolve allegations that the company did no…

LinuxSecurity - Security Advisories
LinuxSecurity - Security Advisories Breaches & leaks

Debian 12 gst-plugins-bad1.0 Important DoS Memory Leak Attacks DLA-4839-1

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in gst-plugins-bad1.0, a collection of plugins for the GStreamer multimedia framework. Processing specially crafted med…

Linux

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Ransomware Attacks Intensify: Criminals Shift Focus to Target Employees and Their Families

Guru Baran reports: Ransomware gangs are moving beyond locked files and stolen data. Criminals now threaten employees, executives, and their families to force …

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Shipping firms and ports caught in mass cyber extortion claim

Bojan Lepic reports: A cyber extortion group has threatened to publish data it claims it stole from 38 shipping, port, and logistics companies unless they pay …

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

The Luna Moth Files Weren’t Hacked. Here’s How They Leaked.

When asked about the “Luna Moth Files” that had mysteriously appeared online, Silent Ransom Group called them “fake” and insisted they hadn’t had any leak or b…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion …