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ShinyHunters leaks almost 900 GB of Ernst & Young data
There is an update to the data security incident involving Ernst & Young, which ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for. Ernst & Young did not confirm that ShinyHunters was responsible for the breach, but in its latest update, ShinyHunters adds additional details to its claims and leaks the data. Ernst & Young disclosed the breach in July, […]
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet: Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. […]
Ten Takeaways from IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report
From the Baker Donelson law firm: IBM has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report for 2026. The 21st edition of the report analyzed 602 data breaches experienced by organizations across 17 industries between March 2025 and February 2026. It provides one of the most comprehensive views available of the financial impact of data breaches […]
Paidwork breach exposes 23M user records
Fox News reports: Making a few extra dollars online should not put your bank details or identity at risk. Yet that is the concern for people who used Paidwork, an online earnings application. A leaked database tied to the platform reportedly contains information from more than 23 million accounts. If you ever signed up, now […]
Water and wastewater systems in seven states have now been attacked
A Public Service Announcement from the FBI: Alert: I-073026-PSA | 30 JULY 2026 Malicious Cyber Actors Targeting Water and Wastewater Sector Internet-Facing Programmable Logic Controllers, Causing Operational Disruptions INTRODUCTION The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators […]
Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
The Register reports: Anthropic has admitted that its Claude models escaped sandboxes to access the open internet and attack three organizations – but has also advanced decent excuses for the incidents. The AI upstart discovered the attacks after checking if security tests of its models had ever produced results similar to the attack on Hugging […]
Massive Tribeca Fest Data Leak Exposes Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and More Celebs’ Contact Info; Meet the Man Who Discovered the Files
Variety reports: The Tribeca Festival suffered a data leak that exposed hundreds of thousands of records, as well as the contact information for thousands of celebrities, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and festival co-founder Robert De Niro. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler revealed the leak in an ExpressVPN blog post over the weekend, claiming he’d uncovered a total of […]
Dental Practices Under Attack by Ransomware Gangs
More than a dozen dental practices have recently disclosed data breaches. Six of them are dental practices linked to Soniva Dental. Soniva has 14 locations in Texas and Massachusetts, and as of yesterday, six of its Texas locations had notified the Texas Attorney General’s Office of breaches: Soniva Dental’s website is currently offline with a […]