Naomi Diaz reports: A federal judge in Minnesota has signed off on a strict set of rules for how the data stolen in Change Healthcare’s 2024 cyberattack can be handled during the ongoing lawsuit. Magistrate Judge Dulce J. Foster approved the plan, reviewed by Becker’s, Aug. 7. It applies to the combined lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group and several of...

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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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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 “malicious 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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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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A press release from the NYS DFS: August 5, 2026 New York State Department of Financial Services Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow announced today that Order Express, Inc., a licensed money transmitter, will pay a $250,000 penalty for violations of DFS’s cybersecurity regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500). DFS investigators identified deficiencies in the company’s cybersecurity program...

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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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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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Alcino Donadel reports: …. Instructure, the edtech company behind learning management system Canvas, suffered one of the largest data breaches in the U.S. this year after cybercriminals gained access through a third-party vendor—an increasingly common occurrence in higher ed. Higher education’s more meditative, governed approach to technological change is useful for reviewing rigor and long-term quality assurance, Pendleton...

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HIPAA Journal reports an update to the Unlimited Technology Systems breach that occurred between October 10 – 15, 2025, and was discovered on October 19, 2025: On July 23, 2026, the HIPAA Journal reported on a data breach at Unlimited Technology Systems, a Montgomery, Ohio-based provider of revenue cycle management services. At the time, the...

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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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Connor Riley Moucka, aka “Waifu” and “Judishe,” was scheduled to stand trial in January 2027. Today, he changed his “not guilty” plea to a guilty plea, and pleaded guilty to four counts of the multi-count indictment.   Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty today to a widespread computer hacking conspiracy that resulted in...

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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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Guru Baran reports: Brinks Home, one of North America’s largest residential security providers, has confirmed that hackers breached its IT systems after the notorious ShinyHunters extortion group claimed responsibility for stealing nearly five million records tied to the company’s Salesforce environment. The confirmation comes after the threat actors listed “BH Security, LLC (brinkshome.com)” on their...

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Abbey Nutter reports: Sumner County Schools is still working through a reported network breach that forced the district to delay the start of the 2026-27 school year, officials told Main Street Media. The district reported the data breach during a meeting of the Sumner County Board of Education on July 21, one day after the...

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Ionut Arghire reports: Healthcare information technology company CareCloud is notifying at least 350,000 people that their information was stolen in a data breach. The incident involved an electronic health record environment within the CareCloud Health division, which was disrupted on March 16, 2026. CareCloud’s investigation determined that hackers accessed one of its AWS environments between...

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DysruptionHub reports: A suspected cyberattack disrupted work email, internet access, Google Drive and other applications at Oceanside Unified School District in California as officials investigated and worked to restore service. The district confirmed a computer network disruption but did not identify its cause. NC Pipeline reported that a separate district text described the incident as a cyberattack....

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Lee Yong-seong reports: The Consumer Dispute Settlement Committee has decided that Coupang must compensate affected consumers 100,000 won [about $70 USD] in cash or 100,000 won in Coupang Cash per person over a large-scale personal data breach, the committee said on the 31st. … The case began on December 8 last year, when 50 consumers...

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