LeakBase Forum Seized as Part of Global Coordinated Actions
The Department of Justice announced yesterday the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for
March 5, 2026
The Department of Justice announced yesterday the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
If a bill introduced in the Connecticut Senate ever becomes law, there will be new requirements for entities whose breaches
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming
Bank InfoSecurity has an update on the Norton Healthcare breach in 2023: Norton Healthcare, which operates nine hospitals and 480
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The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
From Polsinelli PC: In two separate but related actions, third party administrators (TPAs) and their insurance business partners agreed to
The Department of Justice announced yesterday the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools. According to an affidavit unsealed on March 3, the LeakBase forum had over 142,000 members and more than 215,000 messages between members. Available on the open web and in English, the forum had an enormous and continuously updated archive of hacked databases including many from high profile attacks, including hundreds
TechCrunch reports: A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online. On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and more than 6,000 companies, including defense contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, and surveillance provider Palantir, as well as tech giants Microsoft and Oracle. The hacktivist said the data comes from the Office of Industry Partnership, a unit within
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims track prayer times and has wide reach within Iran. It has been downloaded over 5 million times from the Google Play app store alone.
India Today reports: A serious cybersecurity incident involving AI has put Mexico’s government networks under the spotlight, after hackers allegedly used an AI chatbot to pull off a large-scale data theft. According to a Bloomberg investigation, the attacker relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI to break into official systems, stealing close to 150GB of sensitive data that reportedly included taxpayer details, internal documents and employee login information. The breach began quietly in December and went on for several weeks before being
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming to be behind a cyber incident circulated what appears to be patient information to news organisations – an incident that is drawing attention to cyber risk, privacy exposure, and the role of cyber insurance across the health and aged-care sector. The incident, first identified on Feb. 22, has led MediMap to keep its system offline while it investigates how the
Former federal prosecutor Tom O’Malley writes: Attention OPM Data Breach Victims (21.5 Million)Thanks to DOGE (https://fedscoop.com/doge-could-end-opm-breach-identity-protections-mark-warner/), the free identity protection
The Register reports: South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto,
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
The Register reports: The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to
Freedom For All Americans recaps what is known so far about a Conduent Business Solutions data breach that could wind
The Department of Justice announced yesterday the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools. According to an affidavit unsealed on March 3, the LeakBase forum had over 142,000 members and more than 215,000 messages between members. Available on the open web and in English, the forum had an enormous and continuously updated archive of hacked databases including many from high profile attacks, including hundreds
TechCrunch reports: A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online. On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and more than 6,000 companies, including defense contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, and surveillance provider Palantir, as well as tech giants Microsoft and Oracle. The hacktivist said the data comes from the Office of Industry Partnership, a unit within
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims track prayer times and has wide reach within Iran. It has been downloaded over 5 million times from the Google Play app store alone.
India Today reports: A serious cybersecurity incident involving AI has put Mexico’s government networks under the spotlight, after hackers allegedly used an AI chatbot to pull off a large-scale data theft. According to a Bloomberg investigation, the attacker relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI to break into official systems, stealing close to 150GB of sensitive data that reportedly included taxpayer details, internal documents and employee login information. The breach began quietly in December and went on for several weeks before being
The Department of Justice announced yesterday the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
If a bill introduced in the Connecticut Senate ever becomes law, there will be new requirements for entities whose breaches
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming
Bank InfoSecurity has an update on the Norton Healthcare breach in 2023: Norton Healthcare, which operates nine hospitals and 480
Miscellaneous News
The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
From Polsinelli PC: In two separate but related actions, third party administrators (TPAs) and their insurance business partners agreed to
Former federal prosecutor Tom O’Malley writes: Attention OPM Data Breach Victims (21.5 Million)Thanks to DOGE (https://fedscoop.com/doge-could-end-opm-breach-identity-protections-mark-warner/), the free identity protection
The Register reports: South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto,
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
The Register reports: The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to
Freedom For All Americans recaps what is known so far about a Conduent Business Solutions data breach that could wind