Inside Higher Ed reports that recovery from the Canvas data breach encountered a glitch: In the aftermath, Instructure CEO Steve Daly vowed to be “transparent about what happened” and provide K–12 schools and higher education institutions “with information as quickly as we responsibly could.” Over the past two months, Instructure has worked “to conduct a detailed forensic […]
The Guardian reports: Thousands of medical records and patient information stored with one of Australia’s biggest healthcare providers have been breached in a cyber-attack. Partnered Health, owned by private equity firm Quadrant, said 21 clinics across several cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra have been affected by the breach which occurred on 23 June. “Our investigations […]
Help Net Security reports: A financially motivated threat actor is impersonating hundreds of brands on GitHub and pushing a smash-and-grab infostealer masquerading as legitimate downloads of popular software, Arctic Wolf threat researchers have warned. “The 292 impersonated repositories span security tooling, fintech and personal finance, cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges, developer and productivity tools, secure email […]
Security Affairs reports: Dutch police have identified strong indications that Dutch nationals were involved in the February 2026 cyberattack on telecom provider Odido, which resulted in data from more than six million customers being stolen and subsequently made public. Odido is a Dutch telecommunications company and one of the largest mobile network operators in the Netherlands. […]
TechTimes reports: Notification letters from a company called AssuranceAmerica began arriving in mailboxes on July 10 — and if one reached yours, you are among 6,998,886 people whose driver’s license numbers, insurance records, and in many cases Social Security numbers were stolen in a March cyberattack. The breach is the largest known exposure of Americans’ […]
The Record reports two wins for law enforcement this week. U.S. prosecutors announced two milestones this week in their cases against major ransomware groups. Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, a 34-year-old Armenian national, pleaded guilty Wednesday in an Oregon federal court to conspiracy and computer fraud. For about six months beginning in November 2019, he accessed companies’ computer networks […]
The Register reports: Accenture has confirmed an “isolated matter” after a cybercriminal put up for sale what they allege is 35GB of the consulting giant’s internal data, including source code, cryptographic keys, and cloud credentials. The listing, seen by The Register, appeared on a cybercrime forum on July 6 under the title “Accenture Data Breach,” posted […]
BankInfoSecurity reports: A publicly traded home medical equipment and services supplier has told U.S. regulators that hackers recently stole a potentially large volume of patients’ sensitive health and personal information, including data from external electronic health record portals, in a social engineering incident. Pennsylvania-based AdaptHealth in a July 2 filing to the U.S. Securities and […]
DataBreaches.net has followed up on a breach involving very sensitive personal information. The breach has been called “BlueLeaks 2.0” in some circles, and “Navigate360” in other publications, but it occurred when a hacktivist acquired 8.3 million tips from various tiplines that were supposed to protect the anonymity of the tipsters. As DataBreaches.net reports, neither P3 […]
TechCrunch reports: The U.S. Army has reportedly fixed two of its websites that had been defaced to display pro-Kurdish messages and to call out President Donald Trump, the latest case of hackers compromising systems run by the federal government in recent months. Security researcher Ronald Lovelace told Cyberscoop, which first reported the defacements, that error pages were modified on […]
