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Lake County School Board seeks injunction requiring a parent who received unredacted data because of the district’s error to destroy the data

Fox35 in Orlando, Florida, reports that a school district is suing a parent after the district mistakenly sent them unredacted data in 47,000 records: The Lake County School Board filed a lawsuit against a parent after an employee mistakenly shared the confidential education and disability records of approximately 47,000 students. The district is asking a...

Near AI Breach Exposes User Details and Data From 18 AI Agents

Jose Antonio Lanz reports: Near AI has disclosed a breach that exposed account information belonging to about 100 users and data from 18 AI agents after an attacker exploited software running its servers. The company said in a November 9 report that an attacker used a remote code execution vulnerability in SGLang, an open-source engine...

UZ Brussel among hospitals experiencing severe network problems

VRT reports: Brussels University Hospital UZ Brussel (VUB) was the first hospital to report network problems. These are affecting the hospital’s IT infrastructure and telephone systems. There are also problems at AZ Monica in Antwerp, at the Heilig Hart Hospital in Lier and Sint-Andries Hospital in Tielt. As a result, at UZ Brussel scheduled operations...

HIPAA Enforcement by State Attorneys General

HIPAA Journal has a convenient table of HIPAA enforcement actions by state attorneys general. Most entries involve violations of the Security Rule and/or HITECH, but a few appear to relate more to the Privacy Rule or access to records. You can find the table at https://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-enforcement-by-state-attorneys-general/ DataBreaches.net has reported on most of the incidents or...

Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence β€˜going rogue’

Tess Ikonomou and Josh Butler report: OpenAI will not face criminal penalties over the Medicare data breach, but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia’s criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies. Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a β€œrapid review” into the June breach of a...

Ransomware Attack Puts Vanderbilt University on Lockdown

Eli Motycka reports: A broad announcement to shut down university devices and disconnect from university Wi-Fi went out on Monday morning as malicious software began spreading through computers, files and digital infrastructure. The incident follows similar hacks at universities across the country. β€œWe are currently responding to an active cybersecurity incident that may impact university...

SG: SPH Media hit by cyberattacks; says no customer financial data or access exposed

CNA reports: SPH Media has been hit by cyberattacks on five of its systems, but no customer financial information or account access was compromised, the company said on Tuesday (Nov 10). β€œ(The cyberattacks) are believed to be a concerted effort that was carried out by the same threat actor,” an SPH Media spokesperson said in...

Ca: Data breach at The Children’s Foundation

Tim Durkin reports: The Children’s Foundation has issued a privacy notice following a data breach involving its IT service provider, Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society. An unauthorized third party accessed the IT network on July 6, 2026 and encrypted systems before being detected on August 25. The breach may have exposed personal information belonging to...

Ph: NPC receives data breach reports from 10 agencies

Othel V. Campos & Rex Espiritu report: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said Tuesday it has received personal data breach notifications from 10 government agencies, including the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The other agencies are the Presidential Commission on...

Kr: Financial Security Institute reports data leak following hacking incident

Yonhap News reports: Korea’s state-run Financial Security Institute (FSI) reported a data leak following a hacking attack targeting its security assessment system, officials said on Tuesday. The FSI, which oversees financial information provided by banks and insurers, detected the breach the previous day, according to financial authorities. The leaked information reportedly came from the FSI’s...

CISA Announces Enhanced Reporting Form for Cyber Incidents

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...

Binance calls alleged β€œShinyHunters” post a scam attempt

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 β€˜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...

AU: Important update from Epichealth – cyber incident

Seen on Epichealth: 4 November 2026 What has happened Epichealth operates four medical clinics including the Warrnambool Medicare Urgent Care Clinic,Β  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...

Weill Cornell patient data entered into AI tools without authorization

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...

No need to hack when it’s leaking: Artex edition

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...

County of Sussex, New Jersey Notice of Data Privacy Incident

November 6, 2026 8:00 PM EST NEWTON, N.J., Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ β€” 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...

Coding Agents Copy Your Secrets to a Hidden File. Thousands Are on GitHub (2)

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...

Norad targeted by cyberattack

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...

State attorneys general secure up to $10 million and corrective action plan from Perry Johnson companies after 2023 breach

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...

The Next Target for Data Breach Lawsuits – Law Firms That Represent Breached Parties

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...
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