Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security...

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Allardyce Bower Consulting paid more than $14,000 for a cyber insurance policy that included ransom coverage, but when they needed it, the insurer refused to pay. Had the business made a grave error in security? Over on SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice writes: Allardyce Bower Consulting (ABC) was the victim of a severe cyberattack attributed...

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Lindsey Tonsager, Libbie Canter, Jayne Ponder, Jenna Zhang, Ariel Dukes, and Bryan Ramirez of Covington and Burling write: Recently, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law several privacy and related proposals, including new laws governing browser opt-out preference signals, social media account deletion, data brokers, reproductive and health services, age signals for app stores, social...

Bill Toulas reports: Experian Netherlands has been fined EUR 2.7 million ($3.2 million) for multiple violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says that the credit and analytics services company used improperly personal data collected from multiple sources, both public and private, and did not inform customers. Experian is...

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers have discovered that as many as half of all geostationary satellites in Earth’s orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate, and military information, making this data wide open to eavesdropping. The researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland spent $800 on an off-the-shelf satellite receiver and pointed...

Steve Benen writes: When the Supreme Court weighed in on Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo last month, the Republican-appointed justices cleared the way for federal immigration officials to use racial profiling. A concurring opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh proved to be especially important. As the Trump appointee concluded, ICE agents can legally detain someone if they...

On October 16 and 17, the ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters Telegram channel repeatedly violated Telegram’s TOS by leaking personal information on people — and in this case, information on employees of the Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI), U.S. Attorneys Office (DOJ/USAO), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). DataBreaches did not report on it...

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The following are just a few of the pictures I took today at a “No Kings” protest held in Nassau County, New York. It was a peaceful protest. There was a larger-than-expected turnout, with minimal and respectful police presence. As I anticipated in my post explaining why I was going, there were a lot of...

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The following is a personal statement. Today is a day of national protest against the authoritarian regime being imposed by a narcissist and those who are afraid to stand up to him. Today is the day when my husband — an arch-Conservative who has never participated in a political protest in his life — is...

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The following is a personal statement, cross-posted with DataBreaches.net: Today is a day of national protest against the authoritarian regime being imposed by a narcissist and those who are afraid to stand up to him. Today is the day when my husband — an arch-Conservative who has never participated in a political protest in his...

Joseph Topping reports: Heywood Hospital and Athol Hospital said a network outage this week was caused by a cybersecurity incident. The hospitals said they took affected systems offline and engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm. The facilities—Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Massachusetts, and Athol Hospital in Athol, Massachusetts—remain open and caring for patients; earlier in the week...

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Ionut Arghire reports: More than 17 million individuals were likely impacted by a data breach at peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned warns. Prosper disclosed the incident last month, noting that hackers accessed its network and stole confidential, proprietary, and personal information from its systems. According to the US-based...

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On October 14, the attorney for the man whom France claims to be the head of ShinyHunters held a press conference that included some statements on his client’s case. So far, neither France nor the attorney, Juan Branco, has disclosed the arrested man’s name, so we are not really sure who his client is. All...

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Jacob Roach reports: You’re constantly leaving your fingerprint all over the internet. You leave it with the personal information you share willingly, the personal information you share unknowingly, and with the mountain of data that gets sent to each website you load. Maybe you know a thing or two about privacy and decided to pick up a...

From a press release by Claro: The Town of Dover has taken a bold step forward in public safety by partnering with Claro to deploy advanced AI-driven surveillance technology across its municipal buildings. This initiative, which enhances both security and operational efficiency, is already being recognized as a model for smart city innovation. With the...

NEW YORK—The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint asks a federal court to stop this unconstitutional surveillance program, which has silenced and...

Here’s a must-read post, especially if you read and repeated claims that DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit have formed some kind of cartel. Marco A. De Felice writes on SuspectFile: In the recently published “Threat Spotlight: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion in Q3 2025” by ReliaQuest, one particular section drew significant attention: the claim of an alleged “alliance” between three ransomware...

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Nicole Aljet reports an update on a data breach that had been disclosed by Regal Medical Group in February 2023. Current and former patients who received a notice in early 2023 stating a data breach involving Heritage Provider Network or its affiliates may have exposed their personal or medical information could qualify to claim a cash payment...

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Stewart Lewis reports: Operations at the Kelowna, B.C., airport (YLW) were disrupted Tuesday evening after its passenger information screens and public address systems were overtaken in a terrorist cyberattack. The incident began about 5:15 p.m., when pro-Hamas messaging could be seen and heard throughout the airport. A message took over flight information screens announcing the system was...

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Greg Otto reports: F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of...

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