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SafePal, a company that makes cryptocurrency hardware wallets, confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 40,000 customers. Personal information was stolen in the incident, which SafePal disclosed on Sunday.
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Irregular, a company whose AI models compromised real computer systems during security evaluations, has released a postmortem report that security experts say fails to address key questions about what happened and why.
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Polish authorities are investigating a breach at MyDr, a healthcare software provider serving doctors and clinics across the country. The company says it has identified and resolved the cause and put additional security measures in place, but the incident may have exposed data tied to as many as 19 million people.
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An anonymous source contacted DataBreaches in August claiming to have obtained more than 2 million records from TaxAct, including usernames, email addresses, and phone numbers. Around 450,000 of those records have reportedly already been published or shared.
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Bits of Gold, Israel's largest cryptocurrency broker, disclosed that a hacker accessed a third-party data analytics system and stole personal data on roughly 200,000 customers, including names, national ID numbers, and email addresses.
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Tech giants General Electric (GE) and Philips have also confirmed they're investigating claims that the Clop ransomware gang breached their systems and stole data. [...]
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France's General Directorate of Public Finances confirmed a breach in which an attacker accessed government tax systems and extracted personal data belonging to 678,000 people. The Ministry of the Economy and Finance disclosed the incident publicly.
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Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data. [...]
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A federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit against background check company TABB Inc., ruling that the plaintiff could not demonstrate a concrete injury sufficient to establish standing in federal court. The case stemmed from a data leak first reported in 2024.
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Student protests over exam integrity have spread across multiple countries this year, with incidents including mass exam resits in Mexico following suspected cheating affecting nearly 60,000 applicants, and a failed digital marking rollout in Portugal that triggered a serious education crisis.
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Scammers are harvesting location details from holiday photos posted on Instagram and Facebook, then using that information to craft convincing phishing messages that reference specific places and trips to trick people into handing over bank details.
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Wake County, North Carolina has suspended its use of an elections software vendor following a possible cyberattack. Election officials say voting machines, ballots, voter registration data, and vote-counting systems were not affected, but information about poll workers may have been exposed.
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CRPx0 made the news last month for its somewhat novel approach of offering free OnlyFans accounts to get victims to click links that would deploy its malware. Since August 7, when it launched a leak site on both the clear net and dark web, CRPx0 has listed 47 victims that did not pay its extortion... Source
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office has formally reprimanded ACRO Criminal Records Office for violating UK GDPR security requirements following a data breach. ACRO is a national police unit that handles sensitive records including criminal history, Police Certificates, and International Child Protection Certificates.
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Sogang University in South Korea disclosed a cyberattack that exposed personal data linked to roughly 180,000 students, alumni, and staff accounts. The university confirmed the breach involved its integrated login system, with an unidentified outside party responsible.
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A recent report claims ransomware attacks on K-12 are down for the first half of 2026, while another news story’s headline today claims schools are becoming a new cybersecurity battleground. New? We don’t think it’s new. But the education sector has long been characterized as providing low-hanging fruit for criminals, and recent attacks on edtech... Source
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Washington state has released a data privacy report identifying data collection practices and breach incidents as significant concerns for residents. The report signals that state officials are actively examining how personal data is gathered and protected within Washington.
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French authorities are investigating a breach of the tax authority's systems after a hacker claimed to have accessed data on 600,000 people. The intrusion, which occurred in late June, reportedly involved stolen or misused credentials.
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The NHS has acknowledged a data breach after a BBC investigation found that sensitive personal information about transplant patients — including names, dates of birth, and organ details — was routinely transmitted over an unencrypted pager network.
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The Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program has disclosed a data breach affecting at least 185,000 Massachusetts residents, according to a report that also notes breaches at Monongalia County General Hospital and other healthcare organizations.
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Texas Hearing Institute disclosed a ransomware attack that compromised the protected health information of nearly 30,000 patients. The incident falls under HIPAA breach notification requirements, prompting the organization to go public with details of the cyberattack.
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Aesto Health, a healthcare technology company based in Birmingham, Alabama, has disclosed a data security incident that affected multiple healthcare provider clients. The breach was reported by The HIPAA Journal, though specific details about the number of patients affected or the nature of the compromised data have not been specified in available reporting.
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Oil giant Shell has confirmed it is investigating a potential security incident after the Clop ransomware gang claimed it stole 89GB of data. [...]
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The ShinyHunters extortion group breached RingCentral in July and stole personal information from 1.6 million accounts, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.
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