A press release from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today: Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled the updated cyber incident reporting form, an enhanced web-enabled questionnaire available on CISA’s Incident Reporting Portal for reporting cyber incidents. By improving data quality, the more robust form strengthens the effectiveness and efficiency of...

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...

Seen on Epichealth: 4 November 2026 What has happened Epichealth operates four medical clinics including the Warrnambool Medicare Urgent Care Clinic,  Epichealth Ocean Grove Marketplace, Epichealth Ocean Plaza, and Epichealth Portarlington. Epichealth recently experienced a cyber incident, during which an unauthorised third party accessed a part of our IT systems. As soon we became aware...

Naomi Diaz reports: New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine disclosed that patient health information was entered into AI tools and processed using machine learning without authorization as part of a radiology research study. Weill Cornell learned of the incident Sept. 6 and launched an investigation, which determined that certain patient information from Weill Cornell Imaging...

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically probes computer systems for...

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...

Shmulik Cohen and Matan Giladi write: Apiiro research found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repositories: database passwords, cloud keys, API tokens, SSH root logins. Among them: a database vendor’s own admin-level cloud key, a production Azure Postgres password, a Square production token, and the owner password of a medical-records database. 63 organizations, mostly...

From Norway’s aid agency, Norad, November 3: Norad has been targeted by a cyberattack in which the perpetrators may have gained access to the names and email addresses of 20,614 registered users of Norad’s Grant Portal. In addition, they extracted information related to grant applications submitted by at least three organizations. Norad is still working...

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...

Mark Rasch writes: Imagine a company gets hacked and hires a law firm to manage the response. The lawyers coordinate the forensic investigation, determine which notification laws apply, and advise management about what to disclose and when. Months later, the notices arrive. The affected individuals sue the company and add its lawyers as defendants. Their...

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...

Ernestas Naprys reports: A massive decade-old flaw affects Alpine and other distributions that run OpenSSH on the musl library. Containers, routers, IoT devices, and other applications are critically vulnerable. Emergency updates are available. Any long password, between 257 and 1024 characters, unlocks thousands of Linux systems via SSH (Secure Shell), the industry standard for remote...

Claire E. Castles, Amanda Fitzsimmons, Nathaniel P. Garrett, Rebekah Byers Kcehowski, Mary Alexander Myers, and Alexander H. Southwell of Jones Day write: Departing from the risk-based approach many courts have applied since TransUnion, and in tension with other circuits, the Ninth Circuit held that health plan participants whose confidential health information was disclosed without authorization...

Lee Trewhela reports: The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) has admitted a huge data breach has led to many affected staff experiencing “significant distress, loss of trust and ongoing anxiety”. The breach exposed sensitive personal health information relating to almost 8,000 current and former staff. An Excel spreadsheet published in February 2023 exposed hidden sickness...

Jessica Lyons reports: A vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude products lets any browser extension that can control Claude Dispatch make Claude Desktop run code on the computer – or even a different machine signed into the same Claude account – with no browser exploit and minimal user interaction required. Anthropic, aware of the problem since May,...

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...

Mara Sugue reports: Lab 1 has published a report analysing 328 million files from 2,089 datasets exposed after cyber attacks. It found that the median breach now exposes data linked to 542 organisations beyond the named victim. The study also found that 13,436 unique organisations were exposed through incidents recorded between 2025 and 2026, underlining...

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...