Japan Data Breaches 2026: Inside the October Surge
Japan is facing a dense wave of breach disclosures. Since late September, at least 20 major Japanese companies have reported breaches, including Times Car, Lawson, Yakiniku King, Sourcenext and…
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Japan is facing a dense wave of breach disclosures. Since late September, at least 20 major Japanese companies have reported breaches, including Times Car, Lawson, Yakiniku King, Sourcenext and…
A data breach exposed AfD emails, while an anonymous site published AI summaries of 421,000 messages, raising questions about authenticity and privacy. Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)…
Paradigm Healthcare Services detected an intrusion in October 2025, but it took nearly a year to start notifying affected individuals.
In September 2024, the French national pension fund Assurance Retraite suffered a data breach affecting approximately 370k assistance beneficiaries. The data included 70k unique email addresses along…
The High Court has ordered the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) to delete and destroy biometric data collected from its employees after ruling that its facial recognition attendance system was…
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records.
The open-source AI coding project OpenCode has notified a small number of users that API keys they used with external providers were exposed in a security breach.
Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP) and the managed IT service provider XTIUM have agreed to settle an investigation by the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General into a 2024 data breach…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 19th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES CenterPoint Energy, a US utility company serving…
The 2024 cyber incident affected the healthcare data of 62 million people, who launched a class action lawsuit against the business services firm
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who…
A breach affecting the OpenCode Console may lead to the exposure of API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini users
Personal information belonging to millions of current and former California public school students has been stolen from a system operated by Educational Testing Service (ETS). ETS is a nonprofit…
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In May 2026, the French holiday rental network Gîtes de France suffered a data breach affecting some of its departmental branches. The incident exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records…
NY’s Attorney General and CT’s Attorney General held both a provider and its IT company liable for a data breach. The settlement also includes a corrective action plan to improve data security. New…
Unit 42 details the top initial access vectors adversaries use to breach organizations, led by edge exploits, credential abuse and phishing
Data breaches have been announced by Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, Kannarr Eye Care in Kansas, and Indiana University Health Affiliated Covered Entity. Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic…
A cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems has halted the production and delivery of bankruptcy notices for every federal bankruptcy court in the United States, disrupting a core administrative function…
A settlement has been agreed to partly resolve litigation stemming from a cyberattack on American Collection Medical Agency (AMCA). The settlement resolves the “Other Labs Track” of the litigation…