All news with #data breach tag

⚡ This week's recap covers supply-chain compromises, resurfacing legacy bugs, and security tools themselves being targeted. Key incidents include a poisoned Nx Console VS Code extension leading to a GitHub breach, new active exploitation of Microsoft Defender flaws, and a nine-year-old Linux kernel privilege bug. Teams face increasing targeted phishing and widespread botnet scanning, while organizations scramble to patch critical CVEs and secure exposed services.

🔒 Apple reports it prevented more than $2.2bn in fraudulent App Store transactions over the past year and blocked over 1.1 billion fraudulent account creations. By combining human review with machine learning and AI models, Apple says it accelerated fraud detection and disrupted new deceptive tactics. In 2025 the company also terminated 193,000 developer accounts, deactivated 40.4 million user accounts, and prevented use of 5.4 million stolen credit cards.

🔍 Ukrainian cyberpolice, working with U.S. law enforcement, say they identified an 18-year-old from Odesa suspected of running an infostealer operation that infected customers of a California online store between 2024 and 2025. The malware harvested browser sessions, credentials, and payment information, compromising 28,000 accounts. Attackers used 5,800 accounts to make unauthorized purchases totaling about $721,000, and authorities executed searches seizing phones, computers, storage media, bank cards, and cryptocurrency-related evidence while the investigation continues.

⚠ GitHub confirmed attackers exfiltrated code from roughly 3,800 internal repositories after a compromised employee device and a poisoned VS Code extension were used to gain access. The company detected and contained the compromise on May 19, removed the malicious extension, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response. A threat actor calling itself TeamPCP posted lists of stolen repos and claimed responsibility, threatening to leak the data if not sold. GitHub is rotating secrets, analyzing logs, and said it will publish a full incident report when investigations conclude.

🔐 Grafana confirmed its recent data breach stemmed from a single missed GitHub workflow token that was exfiltrated after malicious TanStack npm packages executed in its CI/CD environment. The company detected the intrusion on May 1, rotated most tokens, and launched its incident response, but one token was overlooked and allowed attackers repository access. Grafana says source code wasn't altered and no customer production systems were impacted.

🔒 GitHub confirmed that a third party accessed roughly 3,800 internal repositories after a likely “poisoned” Visual Studio Code extension was found on an employee device on May 19. The intrusion was claimed by the TeamPCP group, which posted on the Breached forum and linked the access to private source code. GitHub says it has contained the incident, removed the malicious extension, isolated the endpoint and prioritized rotation of critical secrets. The company will publish a more detailed report when its investigation is complete.

🔍 Verizon's latest DBIR reports that vulnerability exploitation has become the top initial access vector, accounting for 31% of breaches compared with 13% for credential abuse. The study links this shift to slower patching—only 26% of CISA KEV critical flaws were fully remediated—and a larger backlog of critical vulnerabilities. It also warns that threat actors may be using AI to scale discovery and exploitation, and highlights rising supply-chain incidents, increased shadow AI adoption, and persistent human-factor risks.

⚠️ The FBI's IC3 issued an advisory on 15 May 2026 about the ShinyHunters extortion gang breaching an online learning management system used by US educational institutions. Although the advisory avoided naming the vendor, reporting and Instructure's confirmation made clear Canvas was affected and the company reportedly paid a ransom after receiving alleged 'shred logs'. The FBI warns victims not to engage with extortionists, enable multi‑factor authentication, and remain vigilant against phishing, harassment, and swatting; students and staff should assume their data may be exposed and await official guidance.

🔒 GitHub confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after an employee installed a trojanized VS Code extension; the company removed the malicious version from the Marketplace and isolated the compromised device. It says its current assessment indicates exfiltration was limited to GitHub-internal repositories and that it has found no evidence so far of customer data outside the affected repos being impacted. The incident is under active investigation while GitHub continues incident response.

🔒 Grafana Labs said an investigation into its May 11, 2026 incident found no evidence that customer production systems or Grafana Cloud operations were compromised. The company said the scope was limited to its GitHub environment, where both public and private source code and internal repositories containing business contact names and emails were accessed. Grafana attributed the breach to the TanStack npm supply chain attack by TeamPCP, rotated tokens, enhanced monitoring, and audited commits to secure its repositories.

🔒 GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the hacker group TeamPCP posted on the Breached forum claiming possession of approximately 4,000 private code repositories and seeking at least $50,000. GitHub said it currently has no evidence that customer data stored outside its internal repositories was affected and is monitoring infrastructure for follow-on activity. The company will notify any affected customers through established incident channels. TeamPCP has been linked to previous supply-chain compromises, raising broader concerns.

🔒 GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to internal repositories after threat actor TeamPCP listed what it claims is the platform's source code and internal org data for sale. The company says it has no current evidence of customer impact outside internal repositories and has rotated critical secrets while monitoring for follow-on activity. GitHub reported the compromise involved a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension and directional consistency with the attacker's claim of ~3,800 repositories.

🔒 7-Eleven disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed systems used to store franchisee documents on April 8, 2026, and began notifying affected individuals on May 1. The company has not provided details on the number of affected people or specific data types exposed. The extortion group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility on April 17, alleging the theft of over 600,000 records from the company's Salesforce environment and later leaking a 9.4GB archive after ransom talks failed. 7-Eleven said it launched an investigation but has not commented further.

🔒 Grafana Labs disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained a token granting access to its GitHub environment and downloaded portions of its source code. The company says its investigation found no customer data or personal information were accessed and no customer systems were impacted. It invalidated the compromised credentials, initiated forensic analysis, and implemented additional security controls. Reported extortion demands were received but Grafana has declined to pay.

📌 Grafana Labs says attackers used a stolen GitHub access token to access and download parts of its internal source code repository. The intrusion was claimed by the extortion group CoinbaseCartel, which added Grafana to its data leak site, though no customer data has been published. Grafana reports forensic analysis found no evidence of exposed customer or personal data and that customer systems were unaffected. The company invalidated the compromised credentials, refused the extortion demand, and will publish a detailed post-incident report after completing its investigation.

🔒 Grafana disclosed that an unauthorized party obtained a token that allowed access to its GitHub environment and the download of parts of its codebase. The company says no customer data or personal information were accessed and that it launched a forensic investigation, invalidated the compromised credentials, and implemented additional security controls. The attacker attempted to extort Grafana, demanding payment to avoid publishing stolen material, but the company declined to pay following FBI guidance. Reports link the claim to CoinbaseCartel, a recent data‑extortion group.

🔒 OpenAI confirmed that two employee devices were breached in the Mini Shai-Hulud/TanStack supply-chain attack that compromised hundreds of npm and PyPI packages. The company said customer data, production systems, intellectual property, and deployed software were not impacted. OpenAI isolated affected systems, revoked sessions, rotated credentials, and engaged a third-party forensic firm. It is rotating code-signing certificates as a precaution, requiring macOS users to update desktop apps before June 12, 2026.

🔒 West Pharmaceutical Services disclosed a cyberattack detected on May 4, 2026, that resulted in data exfiltration and encryption of certain systems. The company took affected infrastructure offline globally for containment, notified law enforcement, and engaged external responders including Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. Core enterprise systems supporting shipping and manufacturing have been partially restored, but full recovery and the scope of stolen data remain under investigation.

🛡️ Instructure says it has reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor responsible for the Canvas breach that affected nearly 9,000 educational institutions. The company reported the stolen data was returned and provided what it described as digital confirmation of its destruction, without disclosing whether a payment was made. ShinyHunters are believed to be behind the incident and Instructure has taken containment steps while warning customers to stay vigilant against phishing.

🔍 Check Point Research details a May 2026 compromise of The Gentlemen's backend that exposed chat logs, rosters, negotiation transcripts and tooling discussions. The leak shows a compact operation of roughly nine operators centered on a single administrator (zeta88 / hastalamuerte) who built the RaaS panel with AI coding assistants and participated in attacks. Initial access is mostly via unpatched edge devices or purchased credentials, and chain-victimization was observed. Check Point has notified law enforcement.