In June 2021, DataBreaches reported on a ransomware attack affecting OSF Healthcare by a little-known gang called Xing Team. Our reporting noted OSF’s lack or response to inquiries and lack of timely notification. When OSF issued a statement in October, DataBreaches reported on that, too, commenting that we did not find their incident response timely...

Source

Two years after a malware incident that was not handled in accordance with South Korea’s requirements, KT has been fined. Lee Jin-seok reports: KT has been fined more than 53.9 billion won [USD $37,630,484.43] over a personal data breach and unauthorized micropayment damages caused by the exploitation of illegal small base stations (femtocells). The government...

Source

Chris Liotta reports: Lawmakers voted to extend a key cyberthreat sharing law for another decade, attaching the long-stalled reauthorization to Washington’s annual defense policy bill. The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved its $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 national defense authorization act in a 216-212 vote Wednesday, including a provision that would reauthorize the Cybersecurity Information...

Source

Previous reporting about the Navigate360 breach focused on tips submitted by students, teachers, and parents. In this article, we focus on tips submitted to Crime Stoppers and law enforcement-related programs that use Navigate360’s software. Links to previous articles on this breach are at the end of this article.  Background In 1976, an Albuquerque detective had...

Source

Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Clop ransomware gang (also tracked as Cl0p) is targeting Internet-exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM instances in a new data theft extortion campaign. Clop has reportedly been exploiting a critical improper input validation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-12569, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Windchill and FlexPLM instances. As cybersecurity company...

Source

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 —...

Source

It’s happened. The nightmare of the future is now in our present. Or was this just old-fashioned negligence? Lily Hay Newman and Dell Cameron report: OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform Hugging Face. Describing the incident as...

Source

On March 18, 2026, Navigate360 learned that 8.3 million anonymous tips had been exposed. The company’s response—and the silence of the programs that depend on its platform—has persisted for months. We’re now seeking accountability through state and federal regulators. A DataBreaches.net Editorial In March 2026, the world learned that a hacktivist had acquired 8.3 million...

Source

There’s another update in the litigation involving 23andMe, below, but this won’t be the last update, as California’s Attorney General has also recently sued them under California’s privacy laws.  New York Attorney General Letitia James and a bipartisan coalition of 42 other attorneys general today secured $18 million from genetic testing company 23andMe for failing to...

Source

PORTLAND, Ore.— An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks and an extortion conspiracy targeting companies throughout the United States, including a technology company operating in Oregon. Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 34, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and computer fraud. According to court documents, between...

Source

Jon Brodkin reports that a third co-conspirator who helped BlackCat attackers by giving them inside information on victims’ defense strategies has now been sentenced. A former ransomware negotiator was sentenced to 70 months in prison yesterday after colluding with BlackCat scammers to extort the victims he was hired to protect. As a ransomware negotiator for the company DigitalMint,...

Source

Trigger Warning: This post includes content from tips submitted to anonymous tiplines by or about students. While identity information is redacted, tips may include obscenities and explicit references to sexual abuse, rape, assault, self-harm, violence, suicidal ideation, pornography, and pedophilia.  Overview On March 18, 2026, DDoSecrets and Straight Arrow News reported on a dataset provided...

Source

Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Security researchers have uncovered what they believe to be the first ever instance of an artificial intelligence agent executing a cyber attack from start to finish without human assistance. The AI-powered attack marks a major milestone for both artificial intelligence and cyber security, raising concerns that AI is lowering the barrier for cyber criminals. The fully automated campaign involved...

Source

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...

Source

This is the first part of a two-part report of findings from the Global Schools Group data breach. All statistical analyses and findings were provided to DataBreaches by FulcrumSec, and are presented to assist those investigating the breach as well as parents and employees who might be concerned as to what types of data were...

Source

Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk disclosed a cybersecurity incident last week, and although the firm’s name may not be familiar to everyone, they are a major producer of insulin and semaglutide. Semaglutide is marketed as Wegovy for weight loss and Ozempic for Type 2 diabetes. In its June 11 update, the firm stated that the...

Source

DataBreaches has been impressed by South Korea’s response to data breaches ever since reading about how its financial regulator responded to three credit card companies whose customers suffered a major data leak. Unlike any enforcement action DataBreaches had ever seen levied here in the U.S., the firms had their ability to enroll new customers suspended...

Source

Mason Lewsey reports: Thousands of Essex patient records were compromised in a cyber attack linked to a major NHS data breach, MSE has confirmed. Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust revealed that around 2,380 patient test records were stolen in the attack, which affected data held by third-party provider Synnovis. The trust operates Southend...

Source

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...

Source

Jason Koebler reports: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master...

Source