Sergiu Gatlan reports: Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has denied claims of a new security breach made by a threat actor using the ‘ShinyHunters’ handle on a newly emerged underground cybercrime forum. This follows the threat actor, believed to impersonate the ShinyHunters extortion gang, putting up for sale what they claimed were records of...

November 6, 2026 8:00 PM EST NEWTON, N.J., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office (SCPO) experienced a data privacy event that involved personal information. On or about August 10, 2026, SCPO received alerts of a disruption to its computer network. Upon this identification, it launched an immediate investigation and engaged outside cybersecurity...

A press release from NYS Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of three other attorneys general today secured $10 million from Perry Johnson & Associates, Inc. (PJ&A), Perry Johnson, Inc. (PJI), Perry Johnson & Associates Coding, Inc., Perry Johnson & Associates Radiology, Inc., and Medical...

Robbie Meredith reports: Parents have been told to be alert for unexpected emails or phone calls after a Northern Ireland school app used by almost 50,000 people was affected by a data breach. The Equipple app is used by many schools to schedule and book meetings between parents and teachers. There have been concerns that...

Lawrence Abrams reports: DigiCert warns it suffered a data breach after a server migration mistakenly exposed an internal business system to the internet, allowing unauthorized access to customer information and identity documents. The certificate authority says the breach affected a small portion of its archived customer data, including names, business email addresses, phone numbers, and...

There’s yet another update in the Coupang data breach case. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net of the incident, enforcement actions, and Coupang’s objections to the fines and enforcement actions can be found in links under this update. Now Jeong Hye-Jeong reports: A Seoul court on Thursday rejected Coupang’s request to suspend a 423.6 billion won ($315.6 million) fine...

November 3, 2026: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ryan James Roach, 35 of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Mathiew James Stubbings, 41, of Ontario, Canada, with conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and to cause damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from a...

Iceland Review reports: A security breach affected Inna, the student-information system used by Icelandic upper-secondary schools. It allowed a student to attempt to alter other pupils’ grades and attendance records. Iceland’s Data Protection Authority has received three notifications, while schools and the system operator are still investigating what information may have been accessed. Schools discovered...

Nicole Wootton-Cane reports: At least 320,000 school files stolen during a cyber attack on Bristol City Council’s servers have been found posted to the dark web. Hackers targeted the council’s Trading with Schools platform and accessed data from 39 schools across the region in September. The council said specialist investigations have now identified a “significant...

Daryna Antoniuk reports: A major Russian web hosting provider is struggling to restore its services after a cyberattack destroyed data across its cloud infrastructure and disrupted hundreds of websites. Beget, one of Russia’s largest domain registrars and hosting companies, said Wednesday that it had begun bringing some servers back online following the attack, which took...

Giles Bruce reports: A data breach involving healthcare AI company Xsolis has ensnared at least nine health systems and 1.4 million patients. Xsolis, which provides utilization management and care coordination technology for health systems, reported the targeted phishing attack June 5, noting that on Jan. 20 an unauthorized person accessed portions of the company’s IT...

Park Boram reports: The presidential office held an emergency meeting Tuesday to address the leak of personal information of President Lee Jae Myung and members of an entourage that accompanied him on his overseas trip in June. The meeting, presided over by presidential chief of staff Lim Kwang-hyun, followed news reports that a computer file...

Vittoria Elliott reports: Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent. It appears that the agent used by the contractor, who is employed by...

Kyodo News reports: Leading beverage manufacturer Suntory Holdings Ltd. on Monday joined a growing list of firms reporting personal data leaks, saying information relating to around 100,000 people, including employees, was leaked following unauthorized access to an external cloud service used by the group. Suntory said it has not confirmed any misuse of the information...

Dickson Tam reports: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it has received multiple notifications of data breaches involving Hong Kong Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, as well as electronics retailers Yoho Hong Kong and Broadway. As at 30th October, the authority had logged 51 complaints and 48 enquiries related to these...

Killingly Public Schools (“KPS”), a school district located in Killingly, Connecticut, was the victim of a recent data privacy incident involving certain personally identifiable information (“PII”). What Happened: In October 2025, KPS detected a disruption to its computer network. Upon learning of the activity, KPS took immediate action to secure its systems which included taking...

Lee Hae-rin reports: HYBE, the music agency behind K-pop group BTS, disclosed a cyberattack that exposed personal information of current and former employees and business partners, including resident registration numbers, credit card numbers and medical records. In an apology posted on its website, Oct. 18, the company said an internal security inspection detected unauthorized access...

Eric Weiss reports: The Florida Department of Education says a breach of its student financial aid website may have exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to approximately 4.9 million people. The department said staff learned of unauthorized criminal access to the Florida Student Financial Aid website on Oct. 19. It activated cybersecurity response...

Kalleigh Lane reports: If your school district used Frontline Central or School Health Management, your Social Security number, date of birth, or government ID could have been caught up in a cybersecurity incident. That risk applies to some adults and minors whose information was processed through those products. Frontline Education announced Oct. 26, 2026, that...

David DiMolfetta reports: Searchable records identifying more than 41,000 current and former Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors were published Wednesday, exposing contact information and details about sensitive assignments across the department, according to the organizations behind the release. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets — known as DDoSecrets — said it received...