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...

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...

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...

The Town of Whitsett, North Carolina issued an alert on Facebook on October 22: The Town of Whitsett is notifying residents, vendors, community partners, and other email recipients of a security incident involving the Town Hall email account. DESCRIPTION OF INCIDENT On October 22, 2026, at approximately 10:00 a.m., the Town discovered unauthorized access to...

Dawn Kopecki reports: The US Federal Election Commission’s website has been targeted by a hacker or hackers, disrupting the agency’s electronic filings system a week before the November 3 elections, according to an email seen by Reuters. In a statement, the FEC said that, “at this time, the FEC’s electronic filing system is currently offline...

Avery Kreemer reports: Ohio Auditor Keith Faber announced that his office’s web server was attacked by “overseas cybercriminals and potentially foreign state actors,” prompting the state to temporarily take down the server. Faber said there’s no reason to believe Ohioans’ personal financial information is at risk as a result of the attack, which came on...

Alex Hickey reports: Two Welsh organisations have been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a ransomware attack led to the theft of personal data belonging to 3,300 individuals, the vast majority of whom were children. Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales, known as Data Cymru, received reprimands...

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Jenny Lee reports: The Trump administration banned Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from civilian U.S. government agencies, citing security concerns. The Department of Homeland Security on Monday made public the order requiring federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek-related technology from their IT systems and barring them from procuring DeepSeek products and services. The ban applies to...

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Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data breach has revealed that the data which was compromised in a cyberattack in 2025 goes back as far as 1978. The LAA on Wednesday announced...

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The FBI is doing another victory dance after arresting someone they allege assisted ShinyHunters with the FBI Jobs attack.  Brian Krebs reports: Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI...

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The Star reports that the DeKalb County government fell victim to a cybersecurity incident for the second time in little more than a year. This time, it paid an invoice sent by threat actors impersonating a vendor: “On Thursday, October 1, 2026, DeKalb County Government became aware of a Financial Fraud Cyber Incident that had...

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Eduard Kovacs reports: The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor over a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of bureau employees, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FBI has not publicly named the contractor or the organization involved. However, a senior bureau official told Reuters that its...

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Rescana’s new report on a breach affecting the Denmark Central Person Register (CPR) summarizes the situation: On October 5, 2026, Danish authorities publicly disclosed a significant data breach affecting the Central Person Register (CPR), Denmark’s national population database. Attackers exploited a legitimate company account to access the names, addresses, and CPR numbers of approximately 8.8...

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Colombia’s largest health-promoting entity, Nueva EPS, has allegedly been hacked by an individual demanding $15 million not to leak the data.  Colombia’s healthcare system includes Entidad Promotora de Salud (EPS), regional health-promoting entities responsible for implementing objectives set by the Ministry of Health, developing guidelines and protocols, and overseeing healthcare delivery. As Wikipedia describes, an...

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Jana Winter, Raphael Satter, and A.J. Vicens report: A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, ‌which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was detained this week in Jordan, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Two of ​the sources said he was cooperating with the FBI to identify ​his fellow...

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Matt Bracken reports: A Federal Reserve Board staffer mishandled sensitive classified files and triggered hundreds of data loss prevention alerts leading up to their retirement, the agency’s inspector general revealed in a new report. The security issues with the employee were uncovered by the watchdog during its audit of the Fed’s offboarding process, which began...

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Joseph Topping reports: The City of Vicksburg, Mississippi, has shut down its computer systems after a ransomware attack, potentially delaying in-person utility payments while emergency response and utility service continue. Mayor Willis Thompson told The Vicksburg Post that the city had disconnected its internet operations. “We had to bring our internet operations down, just for...

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KOIN in Oregon reports: Three clicks. That’s all Chuck Dornon said it took to reach private McMinnville records that should never have been public on the dark web. “Anything and everything that the city’s done is out there,” Dornon said. “This is probably the easiest form of information I’ve come across in a breach.” The...

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WFXR in Virginia reports:  The City of Radford announced tonight (9/29) the city is currently dealing with an internet outage due to a potential data breach. City leadership says it reached out to cybersecurity professionals and legal counsel upon becoming aware of the incident. Both state and federal law enforcement have also been notified, and...

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