Collaborate Disseminate
This has not been a great week for hackers whose claims have been refuted. First, ScatteredLapsus$Hunters’ claim about Resecurity was refuted, and now claims by another threat actor that NordVPN has been hacked have also been refuted. Davey Winde… Continue reading NordVPN Hack Claim Firmly Refuted by NordVPN
Published by DataBreaches.net in collaboration with North Country Communications, LLC. January 6, 2026 On December 15, North Country Communications launched as a consultancy dedicated to helping small and mid-sized HIPAA-regulated entities comply with … Continue reading HIPAA Compliance and Breach Communications: Helpful Tips for SMBs
City News reports: A man wanted Canada-wide in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud and data theft of Desjardins clients was arrested in Spain, according to Quebec provincial police. The Sûreté du Québec says Juan Pablo Serrano, considered among… Continue reading Desjardins data breach: Quebec suspect arrested in Spain
A German hacker known as “Martha Root” dressed as a pink Power Ranger deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage. This happened during the recent CCC conference. Martha had infiltrated the site, ran her own AI chatbot to extrac… Continue reading A hacker, known as Martha Root, takes down a white supremacist dating site live
It may be a bit of an understatement to say that Resecurity has been up in the faces of ScatteredLapsus$Hunters and ShinyHunters. Not only did they recently embarrass the former by deceiving them with a honeypot and providing law enforcement with deta… Continue reading Cyber Counterintelligence (CCI): Resecurity releases data on John Erin Binns (IRDev)
Angela Amato reports: Leduc County said it was the target of a deliberate cybersecurity attack which disabled some of the county’s information technology (IT) systems. A news release issued Sunday afternoon said the county became aware of the incident,… Continue reading Ca: Leduc County target of Christmas Day cybersecurity attack
A New Zealand health-related entity has obtained a high court injunction prohibiting the sharing of any data stolen from Manage My Health, a patient portal that allows individuals to request prescription refills, download their medical records, arrange… Continue reading NZ: High Court grants injunction over ManageMyHealth cyber breach
ScatteredLapsus$Hunters (SLH) welcomed the new year by announcing that they had hacked Resecurity and taken “everything,” including: – All internal chats and logs – Full employee data: names, emails, tokens, etc. – Threat intel related, rep… Continue reading Threat actors insisted that Resecurity’s honeypot was real data. We found no evidence that it was.
Are you a security researcher or a journalist in the cybersecurity/cybercrime space? DataBreaches.net and Zack Whittaker at this.weekinsecurity.com are conducting a survey on the types of threats that researchers and journalists have experienced, inclu… Continue reading Reminder: Survey on threats experienced by journalists and security researchers
Stephanie Nau reports: The Illinois Department of Human Services is notifying the public of a data security incident involving internal planning maps that were mistakenly made public from due to incorrect privacy settings. The maps were used for intern… Continue reading Illinois Department of Human Services tightens map security after data incident