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City of Suisun declares local emergency after cyberattack downs 911 dispatch system

By: Dissent
8 August 2026 at 19:05
Katie Chavez reports: Suisun City officials declared a state of emergency Saturday, Aug. 8, after a cyberattack took out the city’s emergency dispatch line and other key systems. City officials said that β€œmalicious software infected and compromised IT systems” at about 5:45 a.m. on Friday. The cybersecurity issue forced the city to shut down its...

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City of Coweta refuses to pay ransom after system-wide cyberattack

By: Dissent
8 August 2026 at 08:40
An update on the ransomware attack affecting the City of Coweta: the city manager has been through a ransomware attack before with another city, and reports that after they paid, they were reinfected weeks later, so Coweta will not be paying any ransom demands. Threat actors who don’t keep their word do spoil it for...

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City of Coweta hit with system-wide ransomware attack, has backup

By: Dissent
7 August 2026 at 16:26
KTUL in Oklahoma reports: The City of Coweta says they are currently responding to a ransomware attack. According to officials, on Werdnesday, August 5, the City experienced at system-wide attack and immediately contacted their contracted IT provider and additional cycbersecurity professionals to secure their systems to prevent any further intrusion and to begin a recovery...

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AU: Hackers leak sensitive Victorian court data to dark web

By: Dissent
7 August 2026 at 09:39
Kristian Silva and Danny The personal information of Victorian court users has been posted on the dark web, sparking a police investigation. Names, emails and job titles of people who attended online hearings in regional courts were posted on an underground hacking forum in July. A user has claimed responsibility in a post. […] Court...

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Swiss federal IT office hit by cyberattack

By: Dissent
4 August 2026 at 08:39
SwissInfo.ch reports: Following a cyberattack on the SharePoint servers operated by the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT), access via the internet has been blocked for people outside the federal administration. Around 200 accounts were compromised in the incident. There are no indications of any further data breaches. The unknown attackers are...

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UK: Details of 100,000 police staff leaked on the dark web after hack

By: Dissent
3 August 2026 at 08:09
Bill Curtis reports: The full names and contact details for more than 100,000 police officers and staff have been leaked on the dark web after a hack, The Times can reveal. As part of a major security breach, hackers compromised data belonging to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Home Office, National Crime Agency (NCA),...

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Cyberattack hits Liechtenstein, with 31,000 records stolen

By: Dissent
3 August 2026 at 08:09
DPA reports: The tiny principality of Liechtenstein has fallen victim to a major cyberattack in which the data of 31,000 people were stolen, the government said on Sunday. The country, which lies between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of around 41,000. The government said it had convened a crisis team led by Prime Minister...

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Hackers Breached an Airline as Known Vulnerabilities Went Unpatched. Now Another Gang Claims It Hacked Them, Too. (Corrected)

By: Dissent
27 July 2026 at 15:20
Three times may be a charm for some things, but not for data security incidents. Frontier Airlines allegedly has had a third data security incident this year. First, it was BobDaHacker publishing a blog post on June 16 titled β€œYour Boarding Pass Is a Skeleton Key.” Frontier Airlines Doesn’t Care. According to the post, Frontier...

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UK: Council worker who snooped on records handed a suspended sentence

By: Dissent
27 July 2026 at 07:14
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A council worker who unlawfully accessed hundreds of personal records has been handed a suspended sentence. Geoffrey Smith, 31, from Ledbury, Herefordshire, was a new employee at Herefordshire Council working in the Children and Young People directorate. His unlawful conduct was discovered after concerns were raised within the council about...

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ID: Kootenai County notifies residents of data breach

By: Dissent
22 July 2026 at 20:45
Nick Hawthorne reports: Kootenai County has begun notifying residents whose personal information may have been compromised in a ransomware attack detected on the county’s computer network in late March. According to a Kootenai County press release, the County discovered the ransomware on March 30, 2026, and immediately took action to secure its network and restore...

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Milford, New Hampshire Confirms Unauthorized Activity, Withholds Details of Suspected Cyberattack (1)

By: Dissent
21 July 2026 at 20:01
Milford, New Hampshire is a quintessential New England town. But charm is no defense against cyberattackers, and it appears that the town may have been attacked last week. As DysruptionHub was the first to report, the town began experiencing problems early on July 15.Β  Town email alerts, shared with DataBreaches by a town resident, reveal...

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Personal data of all South Korean diplomats believed leaked in β€˜unprecedented’ cyberattack

By: Dissent
21 July 2026 at 08:58
Seo Ji-Eun reports: The personal information of nearly all of South Korea’s diplomatic personnel is presumed to have been compromised in what the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called an β€œunprecedented” cyberattack, exposing up to 10,000 administrative and intelligence records. The data system of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA) β€” an institution affiliated with the...

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Seoul Notifies 4.62 Million of Ttareungyi Data Breach, Offers Free Passes

By: Dissent
21 July 2026 at 08:53
Kim Eun-bi reports: The Seoul Metropolitan Government will send individual text messages to about 4.62 million citizens affected by a data breach involving membership information for Ttareungyi, the city’s public bike-sharing service, notifying them of the leaked items and offering compensation such as 30-day passes. The Seoul Facilities Corporation said the same day that it...

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Calgary 911 employee charged with breach of trust

By: Dissent
15 July 2026 at 14:48
Manjot Singh reports: Calgary police say a City of Calgary 911 employee has been charged following an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Police say the investigation began in January after allegations that sensitive information was being accessed and shared outside authorized channels. Investigators allege the accused used her position to access and...

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KR: Military targeted in nearly 19,000 cyberattack attempts in 2025: lawmaker

By: Dissent
12 July 2026 at 11:17
Chae Yun-hwan reports: Cyberattack attempts against the South Korean military reached nearly 19,000 last year, marking the highest figure in five years, a lawmaker said Sunday. The military was targeted in 18,951 cyberattack attempts in 2025, compared with 11,700 in 2021, 9,115 in 2022, 13,599 in 2023 and 14,419 in 2024, according to Rep. Yu...

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Why Bangladesh’s new data protection law may fail to protect your data

By: Dissent
8 July 2026 at 11:23
Meem Arafat Manab reports: On August 19, 2025, hackers broke into Shwapno’s customer database. They took 410 gigabytes of data: the names, phone numbers, and purchase histories of forty lakh registered customers. They demanded $1.5 million. Shwapno refused, secured its systems, and said nothing to its customers for seven months. When the hackers published the...

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Jacksonville, Texas, keeps some city systems offline after cyber incident

By: Dissent
7 July 2026 at 08:46
DysruptionHub reports: Jacksonville, Texas, took some city systems offline after detecting suspicious network activity Friday, leaving some online services unavailable Monday as officials investigated a cybersecurity incident. The city said it detected the activity July 3 and later determined it was related to a cybersecurity incident. Officials took affected systems offline, disabled some systems as...

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Brazil’s Civil Defense suffers a cyberattack on its official alert network

By: Dissent
21 June 2026 at 15:13
This is the kind of cyberattack that can put lives at risk and makes me want to wring some necks if I wasn’t so old and feeble. DemΓ³crata reports: Brazil’s Civil Defense has reported this Saturday that its official alert system has been the target of a cyberattack, an incident that is already being investigated...

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Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports

By: Dissent
18 June 2026 at 20:57
Zack Whittaker reports: A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to take the driver’s license information and passport numbers of more than 3 million people,Β according toΒ the state’s attorney general. The incident is one of the largest data breaches to affect the state this year. In a data breach notice on theΒ Texas...

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WA: Chelan County enters third week of disruptions with no recovery timeline

By: Dissent
10 June 2026 at 19:42
On June 8, Andrew Simpson reported: Β Chelan County entered its third week of system-wide disruptions Monday following a malware incident discovered over Memorial Day weekend, with officials saying they still do not have a timeline for restoring affected systems. According to a June 8 update, county officials became aware of malware affecting the county network...

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