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21 year old pleads guilty to hacking court database and multinational corporation

One Compromised Email Login Just Exposed a Bank’s Entire Customer Base

One Compromised Email Login Just Exposed a Bank’s Entire Customer Base

Behind the breach: 3CX Breach

At the start of 2023, 3CX had every reason to feel like a company on the right side of the software supply chain conversation. The…

Breach Autopsy: 23andMe Turns Credential Stuffing Into Genetic Data Governance

Cybersecurity Weekly Roundup: Data Breaches, Faster Patching, and Global Action Against Ransomware

The cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with organizations facing new challenges ranging from government database…

Financial Compliance Moved From Policy to Proof. Most SIEMs Did Not.

Jeff Darrington, Technical Marketing Director, Graylog

The Hotel Guest Who Stayed for Four Years: Inside the Marriott Data Breach

Imagine going into a luxury hotel after an exhausting flight. The receptionist welcomes you with a big smile. The lobby smells great. You…

When a French Tax Official Sold Citizens’ Data to Criminals

FortiBleed: Inside the Largest Firewall Credential-Harvesting Campaign

How a financially motivated threat actor turned a legitimate FortiOS diagnostic command into a global credential-stealing machine, silently…

Week 27 | The Insurance Industry Had a Very Bad Month

June 26 — July 2, 2026 · 5 stories

June 2026: Biggest Cyber Attacks, Data Breaches, Ransomware Attacks

June 2026 served as a stark reminder of the relentless nature of the modern cyber threat landscape. Threat actors launched sophisticated…

First Half Cyber Breaches in Nigeria and What They Mean

What Nigeria’s data breaches in the first half of 2026 tell us about credentials, and why the fix is structural

The Server Room Is Not a Museum, Stop Preserving Ancient Systems

Every organization has one. A server nobody wants to touch. It sits in the rack like an artifact from a forgotten civilization, humming…

One Click, Millions at Risk: Why the AdaptHealth Cyberattack Matters to Everyone

AdaptHealth is investigating a cybersecurity incident that exposed patient information after attackers gained access through a social…

米国保健福祉省が企業の従業員向け健康保険にHIPAA違反で制裁金450,000 米ドルを科す (2026年7月5日公開)

2026年6月18日、米国保健福祉省(HHS)の公民権室(OCR)は、全国展開する小売企業「Spencer Gifts…

The Printer, the Badge Reader, and the HVAC System Walk Into a Breach

There is a strange belief in many organizations that if a device does not look like a computer, it does not need to be secured like one. A…

How the Tata Electronics data breach exposed Apple and Tesla

The Tata Electronics data breach happened when a ransomware and extortion group called World Leaks stole 630.4 GB of data (204,341 files)…

Nissan Just Got Breached Through a Zero-Day in Oracle PeopleSoft — 53,000 Employees’ Data Exposed

A critical pre-authentication RCE vulnerability allowed attackers to steal sensitive HR data. Here’s what happened and what every…

Anatomy of a 6.2M Record Telecom Breach: When Vishing Meets Broken Access Control

How a simple social engineering attack bypassed a national telecom’s entire security perimeter, and the architectural failures that allowed…

Shadow AI Breach Risk: IBM’s $670K Finding

IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report introduced a new data point: shadow AI adds $670,000 to the average breach cost. Organizations…

24 Billion Passwords Just Leaked. Nobody Hacked Anything.

The largest credential exposure in history wasn’t stolen by a genius. It was found sitting on an unlocked server with no password at all.

What Should I Do If My Personal Information Is Leaked Online?

Introduction

This Oracle Flaw Unleashed a Wave of Extortion

A critical unpatched vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft allowed data theft and payment demands against over 100 organizations.

How To Notify Customers After A Data Breach Without Damaging Trust

Data breaches are one of those moments that separate companies that survive from those that don’t. Everyone knows the legal boxes to check…

Digital Rights Begin with Corporate Accountability for Data Breaches

In the era of total digitalization, major technology companies and telecommunications providers have developed a familiar approach to…

The Day Your Company Was Hacked

When the monitoring system registers a massive drop in server availability and ransom notes flash across the screens of your system…

Behind the Breach: Github/TeamPCP Hack

GitHub confirmed the breach on May 19 and 20, 2026. The investigation was ongoing as of June 2026. This analysis reflects confirmed…

How to Secure Microsoft 365 Against Cyberattacks, Phishing, and Data Breaches

Microsoft 365 has become the foundation of modern business operations. Organizations rely on it every day for email communication, file…

Data Breach Reporting Systems Under Attack: Lessons From Maine’s Breach Portal Shutdown

Cybersecurity challenges are not limited to protecting sensitive data and critical systems. Increasingly, organizations and government…

Behind The Breach

Chapter-6 : The DIGINOTAR breach

Security Foundations: Passkeys

Enter your email address in https://haveibeenpwned.com/ You will be shocked to see your password is already breached and known to the…

I Checked the Dark Web and Found My Own Password For Sale 🤯

The moment I realized my “safe” online life was a complete illusion.

University Data Breach Highlights Growing Cybersecurity Risks in Higher Education

Educational institutions continue to face increasing cybersecurity challenges as threat actors target large repositories of sensitive…

💰 How Hackers Stole $81 Million From a Bank Without Entering It

Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that someone had stolen millions of dollars from your bank. 😳

Tchap Data Breach 2026: What 643,000 Leaked Government Messages Reveal About Secure Messaging…

On June 8, 2026, cybersecurity intelligence platform FrenchBreaches disclosed that a threat actor claimed to have breached Tchap — the…

Behind The Breach

Chapter-5 : VTECH breach

What Happens to Stolen Passwords After a Data Breach? The Technical Pipeline

Forget the corporate PR announcements about “unauthorized network access” and “monitoring the situation.” The moment a company server falls…

The Anatomy of a Digital Breach: A Crisis Management Protocol for Corporate Infrastructure

The realization that an enterprise web platform has been compromised usually arrives not with a dramatic alarm, but with a series of…

Week 23 | When AI Becomes the Locksmith — and the Burglar

May 29 — June 4, 2026 · 6 stories

Attackers Don’t Need to Break In When They Can Just Call

For years, cybersecurity discussions focused on malware, ransomware, and software vulnerabilities.

The Canvas Breach Exposed a Bigger Security Problem Nobody Is Talking About

When news broke about the recent Canvas security incident, much of the discussion focused on a familiar question:

Latest Cybersecurity Breach Data

According to the DBIR 2026 report 31% of breaches exploited technical vulnerabilities. I expect this number to continuing rising as the…

Carnival Cruise Data Breach 2026: Nearly 6 Million Customers’ Personal Data Exposed — Including…

The Carnival Corporation data breach announced this week is raising serious concerns across the United States, with nearly 6 million…

Behind the Breach: Charter Communications

They Called on April Fools’ Day. Charter Was Not Laughing.

Cyber threat: Wolves of Turan has announced the compromise of Armenia’s electoral infrastructure

The Turkish hacking group Wolves of Turan has published data from http://elections.mia.gov.am (the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs’…

🚨 CBSE OnMark Breach: 2M Answer Sheets Exposed

CBSE OnMark Breach: 2M Answer Sheets Exposed

The VPN Your Company Trust is Actively Being Hacked Right Now.

Your IT team patched it. Or so they think.

May 2026 Cyber Attacks, Data Breaches, Ransomware Attacks Landscape

May 2026 served as yet another powerful reminder that cyber threats continue to evolve in both scale and sophistication, impacting…

Episode 2: $813 Million Paid to Ransomware Groups in 2024.

In February 2024, international law enforcement executed one of the most publicized cybercriminal takedowns in history. Operation Cronos —…

Healthcare Remains a Prime Target: Lessons from the Largest Data Breaches

Why Healthcare?