Data Breach News
August 18, 2026
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Scam Alert: Ransomware Actor Poses “Ransom Busters” Incident Recovery Service

Dark Reading reports: A ransomware affiliate is approaching victims of the attacks it may have helped carry out, in an interesting technique that actually undermines its own business model. According to the GuidePoint Research and Intelligence Team (GRIT), a malicious entity referring to itself as “Ransom Busters” has sent an email to cyberattack victims, claiming to have […]

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August 15, 2026
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French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records

The Register reports: France’s tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal advertised a purported database of 2 million taxpayers. Using the alias “ZeroBytes,” the alleged crook behind the attack on the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) advertised the stolen database on a […]

Data Breach News, Healthcare
August 15, 2026
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Baylor Genetics notifying patients and employees of data breach

On June 15, Baylor Genetics in Texas discovered a breach. An investigation subsequently determined that an unauthorized party had accessed data between June 11 and June 17. From their press release: For all impacted patients, the information potentially involved varied by individual and may have included names and one or more of the following for […]

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August 10, 2026
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TCS investigates data leak claims, finds no breach

The Times of India reports: TCS informed the stock exchanges on Monday that it received threat-intelligence alerts alleging possible exposure to certain employee information but said its investigation found no credible evidence of a breach of its systems or customerenvironments. The disclosure follows a post by data security firm S2W on X, which said a […]

Data Breach News
August 08, 2026
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Levi Strauss says hackers breached employee computers, accessed corporate data

The Record reports: Levi Strauss & Co. disclosed on Friday that suspected hackers gained unauthorized access to company files after compromising employees’ computers, making the iconic American apparel maker the latest retailer to report a cybersecurity incident. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the denim company said an unauthorized third party accessed and […]

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August 08, 2026
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Personal details could have been leaked as 1,500 charities hit by cyber-attack

Non-profit organizations are not immune to cyberattacks by unscrupulous threat actors. In this case, a third-party vendor was hit, as Yahoo! UK reports: An investigation has been launched after Southampton Hospitals Charity is among 1,500 potentially affected by a cyber attack. Southampton Hospitals Charity confirmed it is one of the charities targeted in a cyber-security […]

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August 06, 2026
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Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches

The Record reports: A Canadian national is facing decades in prison for participating in the hacking of data storage platform Snowflake.  Connor Riley Moucka, 26, pleaded guilty to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy on Wednesday in a Washington state federal court. He will be sentenced on October 27 and […]

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August 06, 2026
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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service

The Hacker News reports: A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, […]