All news with #data breach tag

🔒 The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has warned residents their data may have been compromised after unusual activity linked to a shared IT service provider was detected earlier this week. The council says it has evidence that some historical data was copied and removed and that the material could end up in the public domain. RBKC urged residents to be vigilant for phishing and social‑engineering attempts via email, text and phone while services are restored, and warned disruption could continue for at least two weeks as investigations and recovery proceed.

🔒Asahi Group Holdings confirmed a ransomware-driven data breach discovered in September that affected up to 1.9 million people. The company says personal information including names, genders, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses was exfiltrated, and the Qilin ransomware group claimed responsibility and published sample files. Production and shipping were suspended during the incident and system restoration is ongoing. Asahi reports no payment card data was exposed and has opened a dedicated contact line for affected individuals.

⚽ The French Football Federation (FFF) disclosed a data breach after attackers used a compromised account to access administrative management software used by clubs. FFF detected the unauthorized access, disabled the compromised account, and reset all user passwords across the system. Before they were evicted, threat actors exfiltrated personal and contact information for members. The federation said it has filed a criminal complaint, notified regulators, and will directly inform affected individuals while urging vigilance against phishing attempts.

🔒 The French Football Federation (FFF) reported unauthorized access to the centralized software used by licensed clubs to manage player registrations, an intrusion it believes occurred on 20 November. Exposed fields include names, genders, dates and places of birth, nationalities, postal and email addresses, phone numbers and football license ID numbers. The FFF says it deactivated the compromised account, reset all user passwords, filed a complaint with authorities and notified CNIL and ANSSI. It will inform affected individuals with known emails and urged license holders to remain vigilant against phishing and scam attempts.

🔒 OpenAI confirmed a customer data exposure after its analytics partner Mixpanel suffered a smishing attack on November 8, which allowed attackers to access profile metadata tied to platform.openai.com accounts. Stolen fields included names, email addresses, approximate location, OS/browser details, referrers, and organization or user IDs. OpenAI says ChatGPT and core systems were not breached and that no API keys, passwords, payment data, or model payloads were exposed. The company has terminated its use of Mixpanel and is notifying impacted customers directly.

🔒 According to an OpenAI statement, cybercriminals accessed analytics provider Mixpanel's systems in early November, and data tied to some API users may have been exposed. Potentially affected fields include account names, associated email addresses, approximate browser-derived location (city, state, country), operating system and browser details, referring websites, and organization or user IDs. OpenAI said its own systems and products such as ChatGPT were not impacted, that sensitive items like chat histories, API requests, API usage data, passwords, credentials, API keys, payment details, and government IDs were not compromised, and that it has removed Mixpanel from its systems while working with the vendor to investigate.

🔒 Asahi Group Holdings has confirmed that personal data for approximately 1.914 million people, including 1.525 million customers, may have been exposed after a September ransomware incident that forced temporary suspension of operations. The company spent two months on containment, integrity checks and system restoration, and says credit card details were not affected. Qilin has claimed responsibility; Asahi warns customers to monitor for unsolicited communications and anticipates ongoing operational impacts.

🔒 OpenAI has notified some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third‑party analytics vendor, Mixpanel. Mixpanel says the incident resulted from a smishing campaign detected on November 8, and OpenAI received details of the affected dataset on November 25. Exposed fields may include names, emails, coarse location, device and browser metadata, referring websites, and account IDs, but OpenAI says no chats, API requests, usage data, passwords, API keys, payment details, or government IDs were exposed. OpenAI has removed Mixpanel from production, begun notifying affected parties, and is warning users to watch for phishing attempts and enable 2FA.

⚠️ OpenAI has warned that some data from users of its platform.openai.com API may have been exposed after an attacker gained unauthorized access to part of analytics vendor Mixpanel and exported a dataset. The incident began on November 9 and Mixpanel shared the dataset with OpenAI on November 25. Potentially affected fields include account names, email addresses, coarse location, browser/OS, referrers and organization or user IDs. OpenAI says its systems, chats, API keys, credentials, payment details and chat content were not compromised, and it has removed Mixpanel from production while notifying affected users and expanding vendor security reviews.

🔒 Huntsman Security's analysis of ICO reports from Q3 2024 to Q2 2025 indicates the retail and manufacturing sector experienced only minor seasonal peaks, with 1,381 incidents overall and quarterly counts clustered in the mid-300s. The firm reported 618 breaches caused by brute force, misconfigurations, malware, phishing and ransomware, and urged a shift to continuous assurance so defenses do not drift into vulnerable states. Other vendors cautioned that more than half of recent ransomware incidents occurred on weekends or holidays, while researchers warned of AI-enabled fake e-commerce sites, typosquatted domains and package-tracking scams targeting shoppers.

🔒 Gainsight disclosed that suspicious activity affecting its Salesforce-connected applications has expanded beyond an initial three-customer list provided by Salesforce, with the company saying it presently knows of "only a handful" of customers whose data were affected. Salesforce revoked access and refreshed tokens for impacted Gainsight-published apps after detecting "unusual activity" claimed by the ShinyHunters group. Several vendors suspended integrations while investigations continue; Gainsight advised rotating credentials, resetting non‑SSO passwords, and reauthorizing connectors as preventive measures.

🔒 Comcast will pay $1.5 million to settle an FCC investigation after a February 2024 vendor breach at Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) exposed the personal data of 273,703 current and former Xfinity customers. Under the consent decree Comcast must implement a compliance plan with enhanced vendor oversight, biennial risk assessments, and biannual reporting. Comcast says its network was not breached and has not conceded wrongdoing.

⚠️ A cyber-attack on the OnSolve CodeRED platform disrupted emergency alerts used by state and local agencies across the US and exposed user data. Crisis24 shut down the legacy environment and is rebuilding the system in a new, isolated infrastructure. Investigators confirmed data theft — including names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords — though there is no evidence the data has been posted online. The threat actor INC Ransom claims responsibility and has published screenshots and is selling samples of the files.

🔒Gainsight has confirmed the cyber‑attack tied to Salesforce affected more customers than initially reported, though the vendor says the number remains limited and affected customers were notified. As a precaution Gainsight temporarily disabled Salesforce read/write access for several products, including Customer Success (CS), Community (CC), Northpass (CE), Skilljar (SJ) and Staircase (ST). Other vendors such as Gong.io, Zendesk and HubSpot have also disabled their connectors. Gainsight engaged Mandiant for an independent forensic investigation and is advising customers to rotate credentials and S3 keys, reset NXT passwords where appropriate, re-authorize integrations, and follow proactive hardening guidance while the investigation continues.

🚨 Crisis24 confirmed its CodeRED emergency-notification platform was breached, disrupting alerts for state and local governments, police, and fire agencies nationwide. The company decommissioned the legacy environment and is rebuilding from a March 31, 2025 backup, so recent accounts may be missing. Crisis24 says the incident was contained to CodeRED, but names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords were stolen; no public posting has been confirmed.

🔒 Security researchers at watchTowr discovered that two popular code utility sites — JSON Formatter and Code Beautify — inadvertently exposed thousands of developer submissions containing sensitive secrets and credentials. By querying a public API and the sites’ “Recent Links” listings, the team extracted over 80,000 submissions spanning years, including API keys, private keys, database and cloud credentials, JWTs, and PII. The exposure remained until the sites disabled the save feature; watchTowr also confirmed active scraping by third parties and reported limited response from affected organizations.

🔒 New research from watchTowr Labs found over 80,000 files saved to online code-formatting tools, exposing thousands of passwords, API keys, repository tokens and other sensitive credentials across government, telecoms, finance, healthcare and critical infrastructure. The datasets comprise five years of JSONFormatter content and one year of CodeBeautify content (about 5GB), and both services used predictable, shareable URLs and a Recent Links page that made mass crawling trivial. Researchers uploaded decoy AWS keys that were abused within 48 hours, and both sites have temporarily disabled save functionality while implementing enhanced content-prevention measures.

🔓 Researchers at external attack surface management firm watchTowr discovered more than 80,000 JSON snippets saved via JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify's unprotected Recent Links feature, exposing credentials, private keys, tokens, and configuration files. The platforms generated predictable, shareable URLs when users saved snippets and stored them without access controls, allowing anyone to scrape content via the services' APIs. Leaked material spans government, finance, healthcare, telecoms, and other sensitive sectors. watchTowr's Canarytoken test showed attackers accessed planted fake AWS keys after links had expired, indicating active scanning.

🔓 Researchers discovered that the code-formatting services JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify exposed more than 80,000 user-saved JSON pastes totaling over 5GB via an unprotected Recent Links feature. The listings and predictable URLs allowed simple crawlers to enumerate and retrieve sensitive data including credentials, API keys, private keys, and PII. The findings show active scraping and confirmed access attempts after uploads expired.

🔒 Dartmouth College says threat actors linked to the Clop extortion gang exploited a zero-day in Oracle E-Business Suite to steal files and leak them on a dark web site. The college reported unauthorized access between August 9 and August 12, 2025, and on October 30 identified files containing names and Social Security numbers. A filing with Maine's Attorney General lists 1,494 individuals whose data was found in reviewed files and notes that financial account information was also taken. Dartmouth has not provided details on any ransom demand or the full scope of impacted people.