Collaborate Disseminate
1News reports: A digital medical records data company has been taken offline after some patient records were modified. Some users’ information had been changed, including to say they were deceased. MediMap is used by some health providers in aged… Continue reading Some patients listed as “Charlie Kirk” or dead after major NZ health app MediMap hacked
Maggie Miller, Dana Nickel and Antoaneta Roussi report: NATO countries’ restrained response to hybrid attacks is at odds with public opinion, new polling shows: Broad swaths of the public in key allied countries say actions such as cyberattacks on hosp… Continue reading Top NATO allies believe cyberattacks on hospitals are an act of war. They’re still struggling to fight back.
The hospitality sector has long been a target of hackers, and it’s a global problem. Here are three recent attacks in the news this week: In the U.S.: Choice Hotels International disclosed a breach affecting franchisees and applicants. Its notifi… Continue reading The hospitality sector continues to be lucrative targets
As seen on InformNapalm: On February 18, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed sanctions against Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka for his role in escalating and prolonging Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine. One of the sta… Continue reading Ukrainian hackers uncover how Russian drone operators are using Belarus
This could be the smallest breach DataBreaches has reported recently, and yet we are covering it instead of other, much bigger breaches that will undoubtedly generate lots of headlines. Why? Because it represents a refreshing example of quick response … Continue reading This is how you do it: Dentist speaks out after practice hit by cyber attack
Interesting Engineering reports: A newly uncovered flaw in Discord’s age verification rollout has added fresh pressure to the company’s 2026 compliance plans. Security researchers recently found that frontend components tied to identity vendor Persona … Continue reading Discord’s age verification data has a frontend leak — now what?
Pieter Arntz reports: Google has issued a patch for a high‑severity Chrome zero‑day, tracked as CVE‑2026‑2441, a memory bug in how the browser handles certain font features that attackers are already exploiting. CVE-2026-2441 has the questionable honor… Continue reading Update Chrome now: Zero-day bug allows code execution via malicious webpages
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: U.S. federal authorities and industry officials are urging hospitals and clinics to address a critical flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access software, which if exploited, could give an attacker… Continue reading Hospitals at Risk of BeyondTrust Ransomware Hacks
Regular readers of my companion privacy-oriented site, PogoWasRight.org, may recall that the site recently noted The Data Broker Directory: Who has your data, where they got it, and who they sell it to by Codamail’s Stephen K. Gielda of Packetder… Continue reading Resource: Privacy Law Directory — Codamail
Jonathan Greig reports: A 45-year-old Romanian national pleaded guilty this week to hacking into computers at Oregon’s Department of Emergency Management in June 2021 and selling the access he obtained for $3,000 worth of Bitcoin. Catalin Dragomir also… Continue reading Romanian hacker faces up to 7 years for breaching Oregon emergency management department