All news with #data breach tag

🔒 Metabase disclosed a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) affecting versions from x.58.0 through x.63.x that has been actively exploited in the wild. The flaw allows unauthenticated SQL injection into the application database, enabling attackers to gain administrator access, alter configurations, steal stored database credentials, and exfiltrate data. Metabase Cloud has been patched; self-hosted users must apply updates immediately or block the "/api/session/reset_password" endpoint as an interim mitigation.

🛡️ Unlimited Technology Systems disclosed a data breach affecting 3,803,750 individuals after a server compromise in October 2025. The company, which provides financial and revenue cycle software to specialty healthcare providers, discovered unauthorized access between October 5 and October 10 and notified authorities and patients in July 2026. Affected data may include names, SSNs, dates of birth, contact details, scanned IDs, insurance information, medical records, and diagnosis details. Affected patients were offered identity monitoring through Kroll.

🔒 Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed that attackers used social engineering on three employees to access company-issued machines and exfiltrate corporate data. The company says rapid response contained the intrusion and no consumer data was impacted, with no disruption to business operations. An investigation is ongoing and Levi’s will provide additional notifications as required; some reporting links the incident to voice-phishing campaigns.

🔒 A Canadian hacker has pleaded guilty to participating in a group that compromised logins and breached a US cloud data warehouse, impacting 165 organizations and resulting in theft of customer records and multimillion-dollar extortion. Identified as Connor Riley Moucka, he worked with two co-conspirators and is linked to intrusions affecting companies such as AT&T, Ticketmaster and Neiman Marcus. The coordinated investigation involved the FBI and international law enforcement partners and led to guilty pleas and arrests tied to the Snowflake-focused campaign.

🔒 Around 1500 UK charities may have had personal data accessed after a cyber incident at CRM provider Beacon. The provider says customers should assume all stored data, including attachments, was likely downloaded and has notified all affected organisations. Beacon attributes the breach to a compromised access key, is working with external experts to investigate and has contained the incident, while advising charities on reporting and payment safety steps.

🔍 IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report, from March 2025 to February 2026, finds the average breach cost rose to $6 million, with AI-enabled attacks comprising one in four incidents. The study of 600 organizations highlights that AI both increases attack speed and, when used defensively, can reduce costs by nearly $2 million. Key issues include poor access controls for AI models, compromised APIs and cloud misconfigurations, and long detection-to-containment times that inflate costs.

🛡️ Connor Riley Moucka, a 26-year-old Canadian, pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy for hacking and extorting more than 165 Snowflake customers and stealing AT&T call and text metadata for over 100 million users. Authorities say the conspirators used stolen credentials where multi-factor authentication was not enforced, exfiltrated terabytes of sensitive data, and extorted victims for ransom. Moucka admitted to threatening officials and security researchers and faces significant prison time at his October sentencing.

🔒 Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court to charges including computer fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his role in the 2024 Snowflake customer account intrusions that affected at least 165 organizations and exposed data tied to over 100 million people. Prosecutors say attackers used old credentials harvested by infostealer malware and exploited accounts with MFA disabled, resulting in more than $9.5 million in direct victim losses and at least $495,000 personally taken by Moucka.

🔍 Reports reveal that certain shared Claude chat links were indexed by Google, exposing sensitive content from AI-assisted apps and private conversations. The exposed material reportedly included medical notes, cryptocurrency wallet keys, addresses, and other personal data. Anthropic says shareable links are user-controlled and not intentionally discoverable, but archived public content can be crawled. Guidance on correcting the setting was provided.

🔒 The Police National Legal Database (PNLD), managed by West Yorkshire Police, has suffered a data security incident identified on July 26 and disclosed on August 3. Information including names, organizations and work email addresses of police officers, criminal justice professionals and partners was published on the dark web, though there is no evidence of compromised passwords. The breach also affected the Ask the Police service, and PNLD is working with cybersecurity specialists and the National Crime Agency to investigate.

🔐 A breach of the U.K. Police National Legal Database (PNLD) exposed names and email addresses of over 100,000 police officers, staff, and criminal justice professionals. The intrusion was detected on July 26 and claimed by the ExfilSquad extortion group, which alleges it stole about 135,000 records. PNLD says no passwords or sensitive victim or offender data were accessed and is working with cybersecurity experts and the NCA while notifying the ICO.

🔒 South Korea’s largest telco, KT, was fined after security lapses allowed attackers to exploit a stolen femtocell and conduct fraudulent micropayments. The PIPC found that long-lived certificates, unrestricted femtocell IP access and weak internal controls enabled the intrusion, exposing PII for 16,647 users and defrauding 368 customers. Investigators also discovered malware infections on internal servers and criticized KT for delayed reporting and log deletions.

🔒 The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) confirmed that names, organisations and work email addresses for police officers, staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers were compromised and published on the dark web. The incident, identified July 26, also included some Ask the Police submitter contact details, raising phishing risks. PNLD says no passwords or credentials are known to be exposed and is working with the ICO, NCA and cybersecurity specialists while notifying affected parties.

🔒 Researchers attribute an exploit in COLDCARD hardware wallet firmware to the theft of roughly $88.6 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets generated with a flawed random number generator. Galaxy Research traced initial drains of about 1,083 BTC on July 30 and later identified further waves raising the total to 1,367 BTC taken from 4,585 addresses. Block and other analysts found an integration error that caused a deterministic MicroPython fallback RNG to be used instead of the STM32 hardware RNG, enabling offline seed reconstruction and address matching.

🔒 Amgen disclosed a cloud data breach after threat actors exfiltrated corporate and patient information from third-party cloud environments. The company detected unauthorized activity in July 2026, activated its incident response plan, and engaged independent forensic experts to investigate. Amgen says stolen data includes proprietary data and patient protected health information, and it is assessing the scope, regulatory requirements, and potential notifications.

🔒 South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission fined KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) after an internal network compromise persisted nearly 11 months from October 2024 to September 2025. The breach exposed personal data of 16,647 subscribers and enabled fraudulent micropayments for at least 368 customers. Investigators found a lost femtocell with a valid certificate used to create a rogue base station, enabling interception of IMSI, IMEI, phone numbers, and authentication codes. PIPC also discovered BPFDoor malware on 38 IT servers dating to March 2024 and criticized KT for inadequate controls, evidence deletion, and delayed reporting, ordering stronger security and governance measures.

🔒 Brinks Home disclosed a security intrusion identified on July 20 and activated incident response procedures while engaging leading forensics experts. The company said alarm monitoring and system functionality were not impacted. Extortion group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen millions of Salesforce records and threatened to publish the data, though BleepingComputer has not verified the claims.

🔒 Analog Devices disclosed unauthorized access to some corporate systems discovered on June 23, 2026, and said it activated incident response procedures and engaged external cybersecurity experts. The company reported no evidence so far of leaked or fraudulently used data, informed law enforcement, and will notify affected parties and regulators. Analog Devices stated business operations remain unaffected and it does not expect a material impact on its finances; an unrelated cybersecurity matter and claims by the data extortion group ExfilSquad were also noted and are under assessment.

🔍 The 2026 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, published on July 29 and based on incidents at 602 organizations between March 2025 and February 2026, found the global average breach cost rose 12% to $4.99 million. Lost business and long-term reputational damage are key drivers of cost, while healthcare remains the most affected sector. The report also highlights a surge in AI-driven attacks, which added about $1 million to breach costs, and recommends zero trust and stronger data governance.

🔒 Medical billing firm Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) disclosed a 2025 network breach that exposed data for 1,261,464 individuals. The intrusion, occurring between September 22–26, 2025, potentially exposed sensitive information including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, medical histories, and insurance identifiers. MCBS identified seven covered entities whose patient records it processed and urges affected individuals to consider fraud alerts or credit freezes. The PEAR ransomware group claims responsibility and says 3.3 TB of data was exfiltrated and leaked.