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October 08, 2025
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Two arrested over nursery chain Kido hack

IT Pro reports two men have been arrested in connection with the attack on Kido schools in which individuals calling themselves Radiant Group first posted pictures, names, and details of nursery school kids and threatened to dump all 8,000, and then deleted the data and apologized. The UK’s Metropolitan Police have arrested two teenagers for […]

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October 08, 2025
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Japan’s Asahi hack that halted beer production claimed by Qilin ransomware group

Reuters reports an update on the attack on a prominent Japanese brewery: Qilin, a ransomware group with a track record of cyberattacks on major entities around the world, claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a hack on Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings that disrupted production at the beer and beverage giant. Asahi Group’s beer-making subsidiary, Asahi Breweries, said on […]

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October 06, 2025
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Ransomware variant poses heightened risk to hospitals

Becker’s Health IT reports: The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit organization that works to share threat intelligence, issued an alert Oct. 1 regarding LockBit 5.0, a ransomware variant that represents an elevated risk to healthcare and other enterprises. The variant is the latest iteration of the ransomware-as-a-service group, which resurfaced in September after a […]

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October 06, 2025
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ParkMobile pays… $1 each for 2021 data breach that hit 22 million

Bleeping Computer reports: ParkMobile has finally wrapped up a class action lawsuit over the platform’s 2021 data breach that hit 22 million users. But there’s a catch: victims are receiving compensation in the form of a $1 in-app credit, which they must claim manually. And, it comes with an expiration date. In-app $0.25 credit can be […]

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October 04, 2025
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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Returns With Salesforce Leak Site

DarkReading reports: After announcing its farewell last month, the cyber extortion group known as Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters returned on Friday with a website featuring stolen Salesforce data and a list of dozens of alleged victims. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is an apparent combination of the Scattered Spider, Lapsus$, and ShinyHunters cybercriminal groups, which first emerged over the summer […]

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October 04, 2025
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Oracle customers being bombarded with emails claiming widespread data theft

CyberScoop reports: Attackers appearing to be aligned with the Clop ransomware group have sent emails to Oracle customers seeking extortion payments, claiming they stole data from the tech giant’s E-Business Suite, according to researchers who spoke with CyberScoop.  Researchers haven’t confirmed the veracity of Clop’s claimed data theft, but multiple investigations into Oracle environments belonging […]

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October 04, 2025
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

The Verge reports: One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party,” the company says. The unauthorized party gained access to “information from a limited number of users who had contacted Discord through our Customer Support and/or Trust & Safety teams” and aimed to “extort a financial ransom from Discord.” The unauthorized […]

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October 02, 2025
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Hackers stole data from British nursery schools — then deleted the data and apologized to parents

The Washington Post reports an update to the breach affecting Kido Schools in the UK: In late September, parents at a chain of British nursery schools got shocking news: They’d been hacked. Cybercriminals had pilfered photographs and sensitive family data on thousands of children and demanded ransom not to release it. A week later, the […]

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October 01, 2025
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WestJet notifies 1.2 million people about June cyberattack

In June, WestJet disclosed a cyberattack. More details have now been made available as the airline has sent notification letters to 1.2 million people. In its notification, WestJet, the second-largest Canadian airline, emphasizes that credit card or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV numbers, as well as guest user passwords, were not compromised, and […]