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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
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
A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019.
BleepingComputer
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
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
The company has restored many websites and apps in Europe and expects e-commerce brands in the US to be restored in days.
SecurityWeek+3 sources
At least three threat actors have been abusing Cairn for persistent access and financial theft.
SecurityWeek
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
Meta is suspending the sharing feature while it investigates its privacy.
Ars Technica+1 source
An attacker used a contributor’s GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud’s command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider says. They…
The Hacker News
There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime Security have warned. Sublime recorded a 1,216% month-over-month increase in August 2026, and the first half of September alone surpassed the whole of August by 1,426%. Check Point’s numbers tell a similar…
Help Net Security
Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft…
The Register+1 source