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Breaches

IDScan admits break-in after 153 million driver's license scans surface on dark web

The identity verification firm says an unauthorised party may have copied customer records from its cloud, days after a criminal marketplace advertised access to a huge trove of scanned IDs traced back to the company.

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Breaches

Dark web store is selling 153 million US and Canadian drivers licence scans, FBI opens probe

A criminal marketplace called Nexus is hawking front-and-back photos of drivers licences, with timestamps pointing at a Louisiana identity verification firm used by car rental counters and cannabis dispensaries.

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Identity & Access

Dark-web card data, 98 Bunnings items, and one PowerPass account: how a South Australian man was caught

Aijaypal Tim Sanghera used stolen credit card numbers, almost certainly bought on the dark web, to order $15,899 worth of goods from Bunnings stores across South Australia. A loyalty account tied every transaction to his name.

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Breaches

UK Police Legal Database Leaked to Dark Web After July Breach

Names, work emails and organisational details of officers, criminal justice staff and government partners were posted online after intruders hit the Police National Legal Database.

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Breaches

Hackers Hit 21 Australian Health Clinics, Putting Medicare Numbers and Test Results at Risk

Partnered Health confirmed a data breach on 23 June that reached patient files across Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Experts warn the stolen records could surface for sale on hidden online marketplaces.

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AI Security

Google Spent $32 Billion on Wiz. Now It Wants AI to Fight Hackers So Fast Humans Can't Keep Up

Criminals can hand off access to a breached company in 22 seconds. Google says only AI can respond that quickly, and it has built a new automated defence platform to prove it.

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Ransomware

Ransomware group claims attack on Els for Autism Foundation

A criminal group called cmdorganization has listed the Florida-based autism charity on a dark-web extortion site. The foundation has not confirmed any incident, and the claim could not be independently verified.

2 min read
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Vulnerabilities

80,000 Hikvision Security Cameras Left Wide Open — and Criminals Are Selling the Keys

A critical flaw in one of the world's most popular surveillance cameras has sat unpatched for nearly a year on tens of thousands of devices. Hackers are now trading access on underground forums.

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