Commentaries and Analyses, Cyberattack, Data Breach News, Legal News, News
October 20, 2025
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John Bolton Indictment Provides Interesting Details About Hack of His AOL Account and Extortion Attempt

Kim Zetter writes: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained […]

Data Breach News
October 19, 2025
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Before Their Telegram Channel Was Banned Again, ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters Dropped Files Doxing Government Employees

DataBreaches.net reports: On October 16 and 17, the ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters Telegram channel repeatedly violated Telegram’s TOS by leaking personal information on people — and in this case, information on employees of the Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI), U.S. Attorneys Office (DOJ/USAO), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). … The .csv file […]

Data Breach News, News, Vendor News
October 19, 2025
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Russian hackers ‘steal HUNDREDS of U.K. Ministry of Defence files and leak them to dark web’ in ‘catastrophic’ attack

The Sun reports: RUSSIAN cybercriminals have stolen hundreds of military documents and posted them on the dark web in a ‘catastrophic’ hack. The security breach compromised eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as emails and names of Ministry of Defence staff, as reported in The Mail on Sunday. The breach has been labelled ‘catastrophic’ and the MoD are investigating the […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, Malware Ransomware, Vendor News
October 16, 2025
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Capita given record £14 million fine over ransomware attack security failings

The Record reports: Capita, the United Kingdom’s largest outsourcing company, was on Wednesday fined £14 million ($18.7 million) over security failings that saw attackers compromise the personal information of 6.6 million people in a ransomware attack in 2023. The voluntary settlement is for less than a third of the £45 million ($60 million) Britain’s data […]

Data Breach News
October 16, 2025
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F5 Networks reports nation-state cyberattack on product systems

This is not an incident involving personally identifiable information or protected health information. It involves source code and information about product vulnerabilities. Street Insider reports: F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) disclosed that a nation-state threat actor gained unauthorized access to certain company systems on August 9, 2025, according to a company statement. The network security company said […]

Insurance News, Data Breach News
October 15, 2025
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A ‘Fast, Fair and Friendly’ Fail: Farmers Irks Customers With Its Handling of a Data Breach

Farmers Insurance is facing negative attention and lawsuits because of a three-month delay in notifying 1.1 million policyholders about a data breach. H. Dennis Beaver, Esq writes: To paraphrase the notice (you can read it in full here): On May 30, 2025, one of our vendors informed us about suspicious activity of an unauthorized actor who […]

Data Breach News, News
October 14, 2025
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British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%

The Register reports: Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government’s cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled. GCHQ’s cyber arm, the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC), said in its annual review published today that its incident management team handled 429 […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Vendor News, Vulnerabilities
October 14, 2025
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Harvard investigating breach linked to Oracle zero-day exploit

Bleeping Computer reports: Harvard University is investigating a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang listed the school on its data leak site, saying the alleged breach was likely caused by a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite servers. “Harvard is aware of reports that data associated with the University has been obtained […]

Data Breach News
October 14, 2025
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Crimson Collective claims to have hacked Nintendo

Computing.co.uk reports; Notorious hacking group Crimson Collective has claimed responsibility for a major breach of Nintendo’s internal systems. Crimson Collective says it has access to sensitive production assets, developer files, and backup data. This claim was given weight by cybersecurity intelligence firm Hackmanac which shared a screenshot on X purportedly showing folders labeled “Production Assets,” “Dev Builds,” […]