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Nintendo responds after alleged third-party data breach: Our ‘systems have not been compromised’

Mashable reports: Nintendo of North America says it’s aware of what’s been described as a small third-party data breach affecting some of its employees. “Nintendo’s systems have not been compromised,” the company told Mashable in a statement, acknowledging that a third-party service was affected by an “issue.” Earlier this week, a hacking group calling itself ShadowByte$ posted a threat on a “well-known cybercrime forum,” according to CyberNews. The group alleged it stole 859MB of internal corporate data from a third-party service called

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One threat actor demanded $50 million from Novo Nordisk. Another one demanded $25 million. Neither got paid.

DataBreaches.net reports that Novo Nordisk wasn’t attacked by just one criminal group but by two. The first group was FulcrumSec, who first contacted Novo Nordisk on June 1. After Novo Nordisk stopped responding to them, FulcrumSec leaked some of the data, providing DataBreaches.net with some exclusive material revealing how they approached the pharmaceutical giant. The second group to attack Novo Nordisk leaked data before FulcrumSec did, but attacked Novo Nordisk after FulcrumSec had. And while FulcrumSec had set a ransom

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Novo Nordisk identifies a hacking incident; pseudoanonymized patient data from clinical trials and provider data accessed

Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest producer of insulin, and maker of GLP-1 medications Wegovy and Ozempic, has disclosed a data breach. The following is from its press release of June 11, 2026:  Novo Nordisk A/S has identified an IT security incident involving unauthorised access to a limited number of internal IT systems. Upon learning of the incident, we launched an investigation with the assistance of external cybersecurity experts, and we are in contact with the relevant authorities.

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Bankruptcy admin approves settlement fund of $47 million for 23andMe data breach victims

The Record reports that the court administrator approved a $47 million settlement fund, even though plaintiffs had sought $47 billion: A Missouri bankruptcy court administrator on Wednesday signed off on a deal that gives millions of victims of a 2023 data breach at 23andMe a cut of a $46.8 million settlement fund. About 7 million customers of the genetics testing company had their data stolen by hackers starting in April 2023, and many had their information posted on the dark

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ShinyHunters claims breach of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at 100-plus organizations

TechCrunch reports that ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for hacking Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities. The breaches, first reported by BleepingComputer involved: “Student, applicant, financial aid, immigration, health, and administrative data has been exfiltrated,” read a message that the hacker said was sent to one of the victims. The hackers claimed to have stolen student records that include home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and dates of birth.  The hacker added that most of the targeted schools

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Nintendo responds after alleged third-party data breach: Our ‘systems have not been compromised’

Mashable reports: Nintendo of North America says it’s aware of what’s been described as a small third-party data breach affecting some of its employees. “Nintendo’s systems have not been compromised,” the company told Mashable in a statement, acknowledging that a third-party service was affected by an “issue.” Earlier this week, a hacking group calling itself ShadowByte$ posted a threat on a “well-known cybercrime forum,” according to CyberNews. The group alleged it stole 859MB of internal corporate data from a third-party service called

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One threat actor demanded $50 million from Novo Nordisk. Another one demanded $25 million. Neither got paid.

DataBreaches.net reports that Novo Nordisk wasn’t attacked by just one criminal group but by two. The first group was FulcrumSec, who first contacted Novo Nordisk on June 1. After Novo Nordisk stopped responding to them, FulcrumSec leaked some of the data, providing DataBreaches.net with some exclusive material revealing how they approached the pharmaceutical giant. The second group to attack Novo Nordisk leaked data before FulcrumSec did, but attacked Novo Nordisk after FulcrumSec had. And while FulcrumSec had set a ransom

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Novo Nordisk identifies a hacking incident; pseudoanonymized patient data from clinical trials and provider data accessed

Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk, the world’s largest producer of insulin, and maker of GLP-1 medications Wegovy and Ozempic, has disclosed a data breach. The following is from its press release of June 11, 2026:  Novo Nordisk A/S has identified an IT security incident involving unauthorised access to a limited number of internal IT systems. Upon learning of the incident, we launched an investigation with the assistance of external cybersecurity experts, and we are in contact with the relevant authorities.

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Bankruptcy admin approves settlement fund of $47 million for 23andMe data breach victims

The Record reports that the court administrator approved a $47 million settlement fund, even though plaintiffs had sought $47 billion: A Missouri bankruptcy court administrator on Wednesday signed off on a deal that gives millions of victims of a 2023 data breach at 23andMe a cut of a $46.8 million settlement fund. About 7 million customers of the genetics testing company had their data stolen by hackers starting in April 2023, and many had their information posted on the dark

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