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Today's CISOs operate in an overly intensive environment.As the ones who are tasked with the unenviable accountability for failed protection and successful bre…
The ransomware attacks in Baltimore and other US cities appear to have a common thread: they're using NSA tools on the agency's home soil. In-the-know security…
A Chinese woman was arrested for sneaking into Trump's "Winter White House," a reminder of how exposed the president's private club is to physical and cybersec…
As reported by a subscriber to the incidents mailing list at . "It appears that perhaps tens of thousands of username/passwords for valid shell logins ALL ACRO…
Claire E. Castles, Amanda Fitzsimmons, Nathaniel P. Garrett, Rebekah Byers Kcehowski, Mary Alexander Myers, and Alexander H. Southwell of Jones Day write: Depa…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass Lockdown Mode protections in OpenAI ChatGPT. …
There’s yet another update in the Coupang data breach case. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net of the incident, enforcement actions, and Coupang’s objection…
October 2026 brought another wave of cyber threats targeting US businesses, with attackers exploiting trusted platforms, legitimate authentication processes, a…
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa said in a press notice that the attackers were able to make transfers using the bank’s own account after compromising an unnamed supplier.
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…
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…
Giles Bruce reports: A data breach involving healthcare AI company Xsolis has ensnared at least nine health systems and 1.4 million patients. Xsolis, which pro…
Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisti…
Hackers who breached Harvard University's Alumni Affairs and Development systems in November 2025 stole data linked to more than 850,000 unique email addresses…
Update uv and python-uv-build to version 0.13.5. This includes some breaking changes to uv (but none to python-uv-build); however, most users will not need to …
DataBreaches.net previously covered the 2023 Lehigh Valley Health Network breach by AlphV (aka “BlackCat”). The breach garnered a lot of public attention when …
ITV reports yet more insider snooping by hopsital employees in the wake of the Southport terror attack: A second hospital in Liverpool is carrying out an inves…
Kyodo News reports: Leading beverage manufacturer Suntory Holdings Ltd. on Monday joined a growing list of firms reporting personal data leaks, saying informat…
Dickson Tam reports: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it has received multiple notifications of data breaches involving Hong Kong …
A vulnerabilitiy was discovered in git-annex, a tool to manage large files with git, without storing the file contents in git, which could result in data exfil…
A cyberattack on refrigeration systems has disrupted stores run by multiple supermarket chains across several European countries after hackers remotely changed…
Attackers posing as IT support on Microsoft Teams talked employees into giving them remote control of their PCs. They then used insecure Active Directory Certi…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows infostealer malware called VOLTA-AUTODOXER (aka VOLTA) that makes use of a large language model (LLM) t…
Update uv and python-uv-build to version 0.13.5. This includes some breaking changes to uv (but none to python-uv-build); however, most users will not need to …