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A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their control panels open on the internet. The agents tried more than 1,200 sites and reached websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm-equipment…
The Hacker News
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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……
DataBreaches.net+1 source
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Simone Kraus writes: On October 9, 2026, Reuters introduced the world to Adem El Adeb, a 19-year-old so called former cybercriminal known as Pryx, who claimed to have abandoned illegal hacking and started a cybersecurity company, but that doesn’t change what he does until the FBI was attacked. He described himself as a retired threat……
DataBreaches.net
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has been active in litigating data breaches. The press release below relates to a 2024 breach of Frontier Communications by RansomHub: Attorney General William Tong today announced a $625,000 settlement with Frontier Communications Parent Inc., resolving an investigation into an April 2024 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information,……
DataBreaches.net
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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……
DataBreaches.net+6 sources
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DysruptionHub reports: The health system disabled its network after suspicious activity, leaving MyChart and doctor searches unavailable and directing urgent medical needs to phone calls or walk-in clinics. A suspected cyber incident left Parkview Health patients without MyChart and online doctor searches Monday after the Indiana-based health system disabled its network in response to suspicious……
DataBreaches.net
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A data breach exposed AfD emails, while an anonymous site published AI summaries of 421,000 messages, raising questions about authenticity and privacy. Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) confirmed on October 19 that its hosting provider was hacked in September and that mailboxes were copied. By the time the confirmation reached Bild, a website called hexane.cc…
Security Affairs
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Paradigm Healthcare Services detected an intrusion in October 2025, but it took nearly a year to start notifying affected individuals.
SecurityWeek
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70K accounts
Assurance Retraite – 70,372 breached accounts
In September 2024, the French national pension fund Assurance Retraite suffered a data breach affecting approximately 370k assistance beneficiaries. The data included 70k unique email addresses along with names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, income levels, marital statuses, French social security numbers (NIR) and contact details of relatives or other nominated contacts. In…
Have I Been Pwned
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Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records.
BleepingComputer+1 source
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Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
WIRED+2 sources
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Hackers have stolen passwords, access credentials and other sensitive data belonging to customers of Russian hosting provider FirstVDS after exploiting a vulnerability in software used to manage its servers.
The Record
