Ahmad Umar Agha (also known as Th3Pr0) had spent more than a decade as a fugitive for targeting of Western media entities, businesses, NGOs, and U.S. and allied government entities October 29 – Today a federal district court in the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months in prison for his…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
ITV reports yet more insider snooping by hopsital employees in the wake of the Southport terror attack: A second hospital in Liverpool is carrying out an investigation into two potential instances of staff accessing medical records connected with the Southport terror attack. The cases were detected at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital as part of…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
The Guardian reports that supermarket freezers across Europe have been hit by a second suspected cyber-attack, with chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg reporting fridge temperatures rising overnight, similar to the hack of French stores last month. For more country-specific reports: AFP reports on the attacks in Belgium,SiliconRepublic reports on 13 SuperValu stores hit in…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
Kyodo News reports: Leading beverage manufacturer Suntory Holdings Ltd. on Monday joined a growing list of firms reporting personal data leaks, saying information relating to around 100,000 people, including employees, was leaked following unauthorized access to an external cloud service used by the group. Suntory said it has not confirmed any misuse of the information…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
Dickson Tam reports: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it has received multiple notifications of data breaches involving Hong Kong Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, as well as electronics retailers Yoho Hong Kong and Broadway. As at 30th October, the authority had logged 51 complaints and 48 enquiries related to these…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
Lee Hae-rin reports: HYBE, the music agency behind K-pop group BTS, disclosed a cyberattack that exposed personal information of current and former employees and business partners, including resident registration numbers, credit card numbers and medical records. In an apology posted on its website, Oct. 18, the company said an internal security inspection detected unauthorized access…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-11-02
James Hopkin reports: The Sault’s police chief says it’s currently unclear how many anonymous tips received by Crime Stoppers locally were potentially exposed in a massive data breach. Both the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service and the Anishinabek Police Service have paused their relationship with the local Crime Stoppers chapter — causing the organization to…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-10-29
Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-10-29
Lukas Brandt writes: Criminals using the Amadey malware lost control of about 180,000 infected computers after operators from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) gained access to the operation’s backend and severed the connection between the controllers and the victims. “The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those victims,”…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-10-29
Maddie Baker and Spencer Landers As cyberattacks continue across Japan, companies are coming to realize the great financial risk of such attacks if their lax cybersecurity systems cause millions of peoples’ personal information to be leaked. Times Car, which saw personal data that included the driver’s licenses of 1.46 million people leaked in September, is learning…
Source: DataBreaches.net · 2026-10-28