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22 articles covering "data-breach"
The 2026 DBIR finds 31% of breaches now begin with unpatched vulnerabilities -- surpassing credential abuse for the first time in the report's 19-year history -- as median patch time climbs to 43 days and ransomware reaches 48% of all breaches.
World's largest electronics manufacturer acknowledges cyberattack claimed by Nitrogen ransomware group on North American factories; attackers allege 8 TB data theft including confidential schematics for Apple, Nvidia, Google and others, with production now resuming.
Instructure says names, email addresses, student IDs and user messages were exposed in a breach disclosed May 1. ShinyHunters then listed the firm on its leak site, claiming 3.65 TB of data tied to 275 million people at close to 9,000 institutions.
Home security giant ADT says attackers detected on April 20 stole names, phone numbers and addresses for 5.5 million customers after voice-phishing an employee's Okta single sign-on. ShinyHunters published an 11GB archive when the company refused to pay.
France's national identity document agency confirmed hackers breached its portal and stole data on up to 12 million citizens, while the threat actor claims 19 million records are for sale.
Booking.com confirmed hackers accessed customer names, contact details, and reservation data, forcing PIN resets across the platform while declining to disclose how many users were affected.
Hackers accessed names, addresses, bank details, and dates of birth of roughly one million Basic-Fit members before monitoring systems cut off the intrusion.
Hackers exploited Anodot's integration with Rockstar's Snowflake cloud to steal nearly 80 million records of financial and analytics data, then published them after the studio refused to pay.
The European Commission confirms a breach of its AWS-hosted Europa.eu platform after ShinyHunters published over 90 GB of stolen data. CERT-EU traces the intrusion to a supply chain attack on the Trivy security scanner.
Qilin ransomware group claims attack on German political party Die Linke, threatening to leak 1.5 terabytes of internal data in what the party calls a hybrid warfare operation.
Italy's data protection authority hit the country's largest bank with two separate fines totaling nearly 50 million euros for an insider data breach and unlawful customer profiling.
A software defect during an overnight update let Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland app users see other customers' transactions, account numbers, and National Insurance numbers for nearly five hours.