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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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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GovTech reports: The mega breach is back in 2026, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The nonprofit group, which works to prevent and reduce incidences of identify theft, found that 1,029 data compromises generated 471 million breach notices in the first half of the year, with one incident —...

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Jeff Piontek comments on the Instructure breach: The forensic review has taken far longer than anyone expected. Through June, Instructure was still finalizing customer-specific findings and asking institutions to designate a security contact to receive them. In early July, the company began delivering the first wave of institution-specific data packets, through a permissioned file-sharing link...

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Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra Ransomware group World Leaks has posted on the dark web a huge cache of files related to India’s largest nuclear plant, including purported blueprints of parts of its ​facilities and supplier details — information it labelled as coming from Reliance Group. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, located in the southern...

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Eduard Kovacs reports: A new ransomware group named D1R in recent days listed Synopsys and Bosch on its Tor-based leak website. The cybercriminals claimed to have exploited a vulnerability in Synopsys’ website to access a corporate client database containing 40,000 entries, and they are threatening to leak the stolen data unless a ransom is paid....

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Connor Jones reports: AdaptHealth says attackers used social engineering to breach its systems and steal sensitive patient data, including passwords associated with insurance billing. The medical equipment company disclosed the attack to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, noting that attackers accessed internal patient management systems, document storage platforms, and external electronic health record system...

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Christopher Brown reports: Bellwether defendants in multi-district litigation over a massive data breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit file-transfer application failed to convince a federal court to toss negligence claims against them under the laws of California, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The defendants—Progress and several of its customers—argued that the claims were barred under the economic-loss...

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Password manager LastPass is still dealing with the settlement from its 2022 data breach (see Related Posts, below, for background on that), but now it has another breach to disclose. Zack Whittaker reports: Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a recent hack...

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Xsolis, Inc. is a business associate in the healthcare sector, providing utilization and case management services. They describe themselves as applying “industry-leading AI and automation to ensure appropriate care settings and accelerate collaboration across a connected network of providers and payers.” On June 19, California Attorney General’s Office posted a copy of a breach notification...

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Buranond Kijwatanachai reports: Private personal information of nearly 11 million people may have been leaked after a Kyushu power company lost a storage drive earlier this year. According to Asahi Shimbun, the storage drive was discovered missing on 26 May. The company insists that sensitive financial information was not leaked. On 27 April, a contractor for...

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Deon Guillory reports: St. George Fire Protection District No. 2 filed a lawsuit against its former IT security provider, alleging the company’s failures led to a cyberattack that compromised the fire district’s network. The lawsuit, filed March 20 in the 19th Judicial District Court, claims General Informatics LLC breached its contract and fiduciary duty by...

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From an FTC press release of June 5: Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission finalized a modified order requiring Illuminate Education Inc. to implement a data security program, limit collection and retention of consumer data, and delete unnecessary data to settle charges that the company’s data security failures led to a major...

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Michel Gribouille reports: A major French health-care payments middleman says hackers broke into a key authorization portal and may have exposed sensitive personal data, including France’s equivalent of a Social Security number, setting off warnings about identity theft and scam attempts. Almerys, a company that helps process “third-party payment” transactions so patients don’t have to...

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