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Abby Sourwine reports: Ransomware attacks against schools and universities held relatively steady in 2025, but the scale of data exposure rose sharply, driven in part by third-party software vulnerabilities and a handful of outsized higher education br… Continue reading Cyber Attacks on Schools Plateaued in 2025, but More Records Exposed
Reza abasi notes that there is a new forum called the “Kurd Hacker Forum” that focuses on databreaches in Iran, Syria, and Turkey. The domain was registered January 28, 2026. The forum, which is on the clear net, looks like it has the same … Continue reading New “Kurd Hackers Forum” Focuses on Middle Eastern Data Breaches and Leaks
Zack Whittaker reports: Dutch phone company Odido has confirmed a data breach affected millions of its customers. The company said in a statement Thursday that unidentified hackers gained access to its customer contact system and covertly downloaded re… Continue reading Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach
Their headline was, “Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Information from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Conduent as Part of Investigation into Largest Data Breach in U.S. History,” but that seemed terribly wrong. Is Texas At… Continue reading Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Information from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Conduent as Part of Investigation into Largest Data Breach in U.S. History
Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin report: South Korean officials blamed a massive data leak last year at Coupang on management failure, rather than a sophisticated cyberattack, and urged the e-commerce giant to fix vulnerabilities in its security systems…. Continue reading South Korea blames Coupang data breach on management failure, not sophisticated attack
The South Korean regulator has imposed fines on three LVMH luxury brands in the wake of data breaches previously reported on this site. A machine translation of the South Korean notice indicates that the Personal Information Protection Commission impos… Continue reading Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commissioner fines 3 LVMH luxury brands after Salesforce data breaches
Erin Schilling and Erin Slowey report: The IRS’ improper disclosure of thousands of immigrants’ personal information to the Department of Homeland Security fulfilled early warnings that the data-sharing deal between the agencies would put taxpayer data… Continue reading IRS Improperly Shares Immigrants’ Data with ICE: Explained
DataBreaches is not on TikTok and, being something of a dinosaur, never heard of “Josh and Jase” before. But no patient should have their privacy violated the ways Josh’s was. What happened to “break the glass?” What happe… Continue reading It’s 2026, but hospitals still haven’t prevented snooping in celebrities’ records
There is an update to a breach previously reported on DataBreaches.net. ApolloMD describes itself as a private, independent group of physicians that partners with more than 100 hospitals nationwide to provide integrated, multispecialty physician, Ambul… Continue reading ApolloMD reveals that 626,540 patients were affected by May, 2025 cyberattack
On May 20, 2025, CNN reported that a ransomware attack had triggered a “system-wide technology outage” at Kettering Adventist Health in Ohio. Disclosures by Kettering Health would later explain that the healthcare system had been attacked b… Continue reading Kettering Adventist Health now notifying patients affected by May 2025 ransomware attack