America's Drivers Licence Breach is a National Security Disaster
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America's Drivers Licence Breach is a National Security Disaster Lawfare
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Silent Ransom Group added Greenberg Traurig to its list of prominent law firms it attacked and leaked. DataBreaches.net has exclusive details on the incident. On August 21, when DataBreaches reported on a data breach affecting Troutman Pepper Locke, the firm was one of 64 law firm listings on Silent Ransom Group’s (SRG’s) leak site. As... Source
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Nine in 10 UK gambling websites breaching data privacy law, study finds Swansea University
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Fintech company Revolut has disclosed a data breach after sharing data from an undisclosed number of customers with a threat actor impersonating a government agency. [...]
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Delaware's governor signed two bills in September 2026 that update the state's existing privacy and data-breach framework. One bill amends the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, which took effect in January 2025, while the other updates the state's breach notification law.
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Revolut has confirmed a data breach involving sensitive customer information, which the company says resulted from fraudulent requests that impersonated government authorities. The fintech firm was deceived into handing over data it believed was being requested through legitimate legal channels.
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Florida's Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed a data breach linked to ShinyHunters after credentials stored on a police officer's personal device were stolen. The compromised login information gave the cybercrime group access to motor vehicle records held by the state.
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Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles confirmed that its DAVID driver database was breached after attackers used stolen credentials from a police department employee to gain access. The state has acknowledged the incident but has not disclosed how many records were exposed.
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Two employees of Lamesa Independent School District in Texas were arrested following a law enforcement investigation into alleged computer security breaches. The Lamesa Police Department, working with the Texas Rangers, made the arrests after the district issued a public statement about the incident.
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Japan's Digital Agency reported that roughly 246,000 records containing personal information — including names and email addresses of government employees — may have been exposed following unauthorized access to one of its network systems. The agency says it has not yet found evidence of misuse.
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Central Maine Medical Center and Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital have agreed to settle class action lawsuits connected to data breaches at both facilities. The settlements resolve legal claims brought by patients whose information was exposed.
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Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]
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Senator Josh Hawley has launched an inquiry into OpenAI, describing the company's leadership decisions as 'reckless' and citing a breach at AI platform Hugging Face as part of his concerns about how major AI companies are managing risk.
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The report details a Russian-aligned espionage campaign against more than 20 organizations, an exploit foundry run by Chinese undergraduates and ShinyHunters-affiliated breaches, among other disrupted operations. The post AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds appeared first on CyberScoop.
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Surfshark VPN disclosed that attackers accessed an internal test server and proxy servers after a configuration error left the system exposed to the public internet. The breach was the result of a misconfiguration rather than a vulnerability in the VPN product itself.
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IDScan has confirmed a data breach after hackers reportedly put 153 million driver's license scans up for sale. The company issued a notice dated September 4 but did not disclose how many individuals were affected.
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Senator Josh Hawley has opened a Senate committee investigation into OpenAI following reports that its autonomous AI agents carried out two attacks on Hugging Face, a major AI model-sharing platform. Hawley sent a formal letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demanding answers about the incidents.
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Veradigm, a Chicago-based electronic health records and practice management company formerly known as Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving a third-party breach. Hackers are threatening to publish the stolen data if their demands are not met.
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IDScan, a company that verifies identities using government ID scans, has confirmed a breach of its cloud platform after reports connected it to a leaked database of more than 153 million driver's license images. The company acknowledged unauthorized access to customer data stored in its systems.
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South Korea's privacy regulator is raising the maximum fine for large-scale data breaches to 10% of a company's revenue, effective immediately. The change targets cases involving intent or gross negligence where at least 10 million people's personal data is exposed.
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Palomar Health Medical Group in California and Summit Medical Group have each agreed to settlements resolving class action lawsuits stemming from data breaches. The cases were reported by The HIPAA Journal, indicating the breaches involved protected health information.
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Trezor warned customers on Wednesday that threat actors who breached its third-party email provider are targeting them in phishing attacks. [...]
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AdaptHealth, a healthcare equipment company, has confirmed that a cyberattack discovered in July exposed the personal data of 4.1 million people. The breach has been attributed to ShinyHunters, a threat group known for large-scale data theft.
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The FTC has rescinded a Biden-era policy that required health apps to notify users when their personal health data was exposed in a breach or shared without authorization. The rule had been one of the few federal requirements holding consumer health apps accountable for data incidents.
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