Park Hyo-jung reports: More than 460,000 pieces of personal data, including bank account and credit card information, were exposed in a breach at South Korean financial media outlet 3Pro TV. E-Broadcasting, the company that operates 3Pro TV, posted a notice on the outlet’s website saying it had confirmed that “an external actor illegally accessed the...

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Emma Woollacott reports: European firms are more concerned about a potential US government-imposed ‘kill switch’ for cloud services than almost anything else. In a survey of 1,500 businesses in the UK, France, and Germany, Proton found that with many having built their operations around a small number of US-based providers, they’re worried that access to those platforms could be...

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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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The NL Times reports: Online retailer Bol has warned customers about a data breach involving one of its logistics partners. The company said unauthorized parties accessed the partner’s systems, but emphasized that Bol’s own systems were not affected. Even so, some customer information may have been viewed or copied, the company said in a statement....

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Emma Kirk reports: Updoc patients have been notified their personal information may have been accessed in a security breach. The website is used for 24/7 telehealth services across Australia. Customers were advised there was a “brief period of unauthorised access to a third party system” where hackers had access to names, email and postal addresses...

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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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The Herald Business reports: Seoul Facilities Corp. has drawn criticism over its plan to offer 5,000 won [$3.50 USD] per affected user in response to a personal data breach involving about 4.62 million people, with questions mounting over whether the compensation is adequate. Seoul Metropolitan Council member Im Gyu-ho of the Democratic Party of Korea...

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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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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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Miguel Gomez reports: The biopharmaceutical company Diater, founded in Madrid in 1999, has appeared on the list of victims that the ransomware group DeadLock is disseminating on the dark web. The intrusion affects a company that manages particularly sensitive information of patients and healthcare professionals. The contrast lies in the type of data compromised and...

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Will Murray reports: Another medical clinic has revealed it has been targeted by hackers, less than a week after Partnered Health announced a major data breach. GO2 Health in Everton Park, in Brisbane’s north, said the clinic’s main email mailbox was accessed in April after a phishing attack. It wasn’t until almost three months later...

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SuspectFile has published a great interview with the people behind RansomNews.online: Within this context, the first RedACT H1 2026 report, published by ransomNews.online, represents a valuable contribution to the analysis of ransomware activity targeting Italy. The project presents itself as a new independent initiative focused on continuously monitoring the ransomware ecosystem through the collection, verification, and analysis...

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Alexander Martin reports: Cyberattack tools and infrastructure used by North Korea’s Lazarus Group appear to have been shared with ransomware criminals targeting South Korean organizations, according to new research released Thursday alongside a joint advisory by four South Korean security and intelligence agencies. The technical report from cybersecurity firm AhnLab details how the state-sponsored North Korean group, widely tracked...

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Two years after a malware incident that was not handled in accordance with South Korea’s requirements, KT has been fined. Lee Jin-seok reports: KT has been fined more than 53.9 billion won [USD $37,630,484.43] over a personal data breach and unauthorized micropayment damages caused by the exploitation of illegal small base stations (femtocells). The government...

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Caitlin Powell reports: A male registered nurse from northern Sydney has been charged after allegedly downloading the data of multiple patients. Police received a report on Wednesday, July 22, that a NSW Health employee had allegedly accessed and downloaded patient information without authorisation. Detectives launched an investigation under Strike Force Civic and, after inquiries, searched a home in Frenchs Forest...

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From the Dutch Police: In an investigation into so-called online sadistic COM networks, a suspect from North Holland was arrested on Monday, July 20. As a member of the group ‘764’, the suspect allegedly asked girls to cut themselves and write his online username on surfaces such as walls with their blood—known as ‘bloodsigns’. He...

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Roxanne Libatique reports: Origin Energy has declined to comment on a public claim that it privately resolved a cyber extortion threat – a posture that, as of July 24, leaves the company managing simultaneous obligations to regulators, the ASX, and an insurance market now aware that the alleged access point was a fired former employee’s...

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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 “unprecedented” cyberattack, exposing up to 10,000 administrative and intelligence records. The data system of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA) — an institution affiliated with the...

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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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Gianluca Semeraro reports:  Italy’s data protection authority has fined telecoms operator WINDTRE €1.7 million ($1.94 million) for “serious shortcomings” in ​its data security systems, leading ‌to two unauthorised breaches and the exposure of personal information belonging to more than 365,000 customers. • The investigation was prompted by the CK ‌Hutchison ​owned company’s notification of ⁠the...

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