404 Media continued its excellent reporting on the ShinyHunters attack that compromised the FBI job portal and exfiltrated sensitive information on intelligence personnel and others. The hackers behind the massive FBI breach told 404 Media on Monday they do not intend to publish the data. The breach, in which the hackers stole personal information on […]
ABC News reports that a breach of the Pentagon’s personnel database exposed sensitive information, including Social Security numbers and details about the jobs they held: The breach affected 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased, the official said. The scope and sensitivity of the exposed information could raise national security concerns, particularly […]
The New York Times reports that OpenAI went rogue – again. OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes. The incidents involving […]
Claims that AU Medicare had been hacked by an OpenAI agent made headlines everywhere this week. But was the compromise really a sophisticated action by an OpenAI agent, or was it easy peasy because AU Medicare had an obvious vulnerability? The Record reports: Security researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an […]
More details have emerged about data allegedly hacked from the FBI job application portal, and experts suggest it could put individuals at risk. Reuters reports: FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence, drug cartels, and more, […]
In May 2026, the FBI published a bulletin about ShinyHunters that contained statements that ShinyHunters found offensive. So it hacked the FBI, defaced one of its websites, and then published a “PSA” explaining why they hacked the data. Mashable reports: The alleged stolen data includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, and details about some employees’ […]
Ratopati reports that a ransomware attack on a Nepal Stock Exchange data center resulted in the closing of stock market trading on Monday. There are 90 broker companies in Nepal. These brokers use two data centers to store data related to transactions with their clients. Of these, Data Hub handles the data center work for […]
Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model autonomously hacked into three companies during a test of its cyber-security capabilities in May. While Google claims the model acted responsibly by backing out after recognizing it had attacked legitimate businesses, the affected firms weren’t notified until July, and the public wasn’t notified until this week, when The Wall Street Journal uncovered […]
Insurance Business Magazine considers the question of whether a firm’s cyberinsurance will cover a breach at its vendor. The detail that matters for insurance brokers is not that a breach occurred – it is how. Ryan Specialty’s 2026 analysis of Dependent Business Interruption (Dependent BI) coverage puts the structural problem plainly: “Each of these events […]
The Crypto Times reports Revolut has confirmed that approximately 680 customers were affected in the customer-data disclosure incident: The 680 figure was first reported by the Financial Times, which described the group as “nearly 700.” A source close to the bank confirmed the number to City AM, which said Revolut had contacted all affected customers […]
