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DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Vibetech Database Exposes 13.7M Records Including Assortment of Old Breaches

Debra Ahmed reports: An unprotected database linked to India-based AI software development and IT services company Vibetech exposed 13.7 million records contai…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

UK Legal Aid Agency hack worse than thought, with stolen records dating back to 1978

A cyberattack on Britain’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) stole far older and broader records than the government previously disclosed.

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Help TDS Linked to Hotejka as 20,000+ Cloudflare Pages Domains Host Tech Support Scams

A long-running Traffic Distribution System (TDS) known as Help TDS to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka, which appears to be a rebrand of a t…

PHP

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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

Legal Aid Agency cyberattack: Compromised data goes back to 1978

Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data …

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early

Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sa…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, acco…

GitHub

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached…

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles Breaches & leaks

Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management on Linux: Moving Past Sudo Sprawl

The majority of Linux breaches don't begin at root.

Linux

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Japan on Cyberattack Alert as Ransomware Wave Hits Major Brands and Exposes Millions of Records

Audrey Liza M. Nolasco reports: Japan is confronting a mounting cybersecurity crisis, with a ransomware attack disrupting hundreds of organisations and a serie…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them

AI-powered penetration testing can uncover complex attack paths, but safety restrictions and network limitations leave many assets and vulnerabilities untested…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Russian travel booking platform suspends reservations after cyberattack

Customers of Russian travel website Anywayanyday were unable to book tickets or hotel rooms as the company responded to a cyberattack.

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

Attackers claim to have stolen 80 million South African patient records in massive Ampath Laboratories data breach

Luis Monzon reports: Ampath Laboratories, one of South Africa’s largest pathology service providers, has been hit by a cyberattack, with the attacker claiming …

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

FTC: Company netted at least $60 million charging sextortion victims for help it didn’t provide

An Ohio-based company charged individuals thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams, but the operation itself was fraudulent, according to a Federal Trade…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

TFG London cyberattack disrupts systems at Hobbs and Whistles retailers

TFG London detected a cybersecurity incident that impacted IT systems used by the Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles premium fashion brands.…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Sandbox vulnerability gives rogue AI agents a path to escape and leak data, research says

The new research, published by AI security startup AIR, found that a network filtering flaw in Vercel Sandbox — a tool used to run code in isolated environment…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

The MFA Gaps Attackers are Still Exploiting

Attackers continue exploiting gaps in MFA coverage, using stolen credentials to access VPNs, RDP, and Windows systems that still rely on passwords alone. Speco…

Windows VPN

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Russian internet provider SkyNet reports outages after cyberattack claimed by Ukrainian hackers

One of St. Petersburg's major internet providers said its network had been under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since October 6, affecting servi…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Xandr Fined a Record €8.6 Million for Relaying Grindr Data Revealing Sexual Orientation

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Xandr, an advertising unit owned by Microsoft, €8.6 million ($9.62 million) for illegally relaying ​Gri…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

UK: Commercial market research and data-gathering firm in the medical space leaked health data

UpGuard provides another entry for our “No need to hack when it’s leaking” files. This time, it’s Liberating Research. On August 31, Greg Pollock from UpGuard …

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

South African clothing retailer Foschini Group investigating cyberattack on British fashion brands

The South African retail giant The Foschini Group (TFG) disclosed a cyberattack that disrupted IT systems at three of its British fashion brands, leaving some …

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DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

ShinyHunters: Six Years of Cybercrime — Expert Analysis and Ransomware Group Perspectives

Back in the day, when my co-author and I would conduct training workshops on neurobehavioral disorders in children and teens, we would always introduce our pre…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

[Webinar] How to Stop AI-Driven Privilege Escalation With Runtime Identity Controls

The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance…