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A man named Saif al-Din Khader, allegedly connected to the ShinyHunters hacking group, has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI. The development comes as the bureau investigates a major breach that exposed employee data.
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ATB, Ukraine's largest grocery chain, confirmed it suffered a cyberattack after hackers posted an extortion demand directly on its website. The attackers are threatening to release stolen data if their demands are not met.
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WindRose Health Network, along with Advantage Home Health Care and Camden-on-Gauley Medical Center, has disclosed data breaches affecting patients across Indiana and West Virginia. The WindRose incident alone involves approximately 33,000 individuals.
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A ransomware attack that affected the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine resulted in the theft of some information from its servers.
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Denmark's Central Population Register, which holds personal records for the country's entire registered population, has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 8.8 million individuals. The CPR is the backbone of Danish public administration, linking citizens to health, tax, and government services.
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Unauthorized parties accessed sensitive Pentagon personnel records for approximately nine months before the breach was detected, compounding government cybersecurity concerns at a moment when the FBI is also dealing with its own separate incident.
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Nueva EPS, Colombia's largest health-promoting entity, has allegedly been breached by an attacker demanding $15 million to withhold stolen data. The organization plays a central role in the country's healthcare system, overseeing delivery and implementing national health guidelines.
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Nikkei, the Japanese financial media group, disclosed a cyberattack that breached an employee email account and may have exposed the identities of journalistic sources.
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FBI and U.S. Coast Guard investigators found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer. The breach, confirmed by U.S. officials, represents a serious intrusion into a vessel's operational technology while it was actively navigating toward a major port.
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Luis Monzon reports: Ransomware-as-a-service group The Gentlemen threatened to leak data belonging to insurance companies LegalWise and Samwumed, with more South African companies likely to follow. The Gentlemen is one of the most active cybercriminal organisations in the world, and accounted for 17% of all ransomware attacks globally in July, according to Check Point Software.... Source
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Denmark is investigating a breach of its national population register after unauthorized access exposed data on approximately 8.8 million people, which is roughly the entire country's population.
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The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, has been responding to a security incident since September 3. On October 2, Kairos threat actors contacted DataBreaches to alert us to the incident and their response to the district’s claim that they believed student data had not been compromised. They were also angry that... Source
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Italy's data protection authority has fined IQVIA Solutions Italy €7 million after finding that health data belonging to roughly one million patients of 800 family doctors was not properly anonymized, in violation of data protection rules.
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Hackers breached the Technical University of Denmark's identity and access management system, downloading data that may affect up to 200,000 people. DTU has disclosed the incident but details on what specific data was taken remain limited.
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Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software to gain unauthorized access to its systems and steal employee information, including Social Security numbers. [...]
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The China-linked ransomware group Warlock targeted a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university by exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain initial access. [...]
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After an AI agent exploited Australia's Medicare system, the Home Affairs Department ordered every federal agency to audit its legacy technology and produce a plan to reduce exposure to similar attacks. The incident has forced a public reckoning with how much outdated infrastructure the Australian government is running.
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Government services were temporarily disrupted by ransomware in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mayor Willis Thompson said the FBI and other authorities are investigating.
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The group is exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft SharePoint, according to a new report from Symantec Threat Hunter Team.
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Joseph Topping reports: The City of Vicksburg, Mississippi, has shut down its computer systems after a ransomware attack, potentially delaying in-person utility payments while emergency response and utility service continue. Mayor Willis Thompson told The Vicksburg Post that the city had disconnected its internet operations. “We had to bring our internet operations down, just for... Source
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AngMar Management Services, a Texas-based home health and hospice management company, disclosed unauthorized access to its IT systems affecting roughly 35,000 Texas residents. The breach was reported in the HIPAA Journal, indicating it likely involved protected health information.
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Attackers took over Microsoft's official X account, which has more than 13 million followers, and used it to promote a cryptocurrency token in what appears to have been a pump-and-dump scheme. The account was hijacked by unknown actors, and the incident was reported on Thursday.
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Microsoft has assessed that cyberthreat actors are currently extracting more advantage from AI than the security teams trying to stop them, using the technology to find vulnerabilities faster, build malware, and move more efficiently after a breach.
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DataBreaches has reported on a group known as KillSec for almost two years. This time, we get to report on their arrest. The European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation issued this press release today: An international group of authorities from nine countries, coordinated by Eurojust and Europol, has successfully shut down a ransomware group... Source
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