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83 stories taggeddata breach.

ShinyHunters Claims 1.6 Million Records Stolen from RingCentral
The extortion group published 280 gigabytes of alleged RingCentral data after the company refused to pay. Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now circulating freely.

A Leaked Password Let Hackers Drain the Donor Databases of More Than 1,000 UK Charities
Beacon, a software company that helps charities manage their supporters, left an access key exposed in public code. Criminals found it, used it, and likely walked off with every record in the system.

Trezor customers exposed after shipping partner ShipMonk is hacked
Roughly 13,700 buyers of the hardware wallet had names, addresses and phone numbers stolen through a third-party logistics breach.

Origin Energy's Data Breach Is a Window Into Australia's Worsening Cyber Problem
Nine hundred thousand customers had their details exposed. Two university professors say the breach is neither surprising nor isolated, and that ordinary Australians are bearing the hidden costs.

Ransomware Hit Colombia's Justice Ministry Five Days Before a New President Took Office
Files were encrypted, services went down, and ColCERT had warned about exactly this kind of attack the day before. Here is what happened, and why Colombia keeps ending up in the crosshairs.

Wesco Confirms Cloud CRM Incident After ExfilSquad Dumps 2.6 Million Records
The Fortune 500 distributor says no sensitive customer or employee data is at risk, but the extortion crew has already published what it claims to have stolen.

LexisNexis Pulls Three Services Offline After Vendor Server Break-In
The data analytics giant disconnected Nexis Diligence, Metabase API and Newsdesk after spotting suspicious activity on a third party's servers, and is rebuilding the systems from scratch.

Valve tells European Steam customers their delivery details were stolen in CEVA Logistics hack
The gaming giant says names, addresses and phone numbers were taken after attackers spent four days inside its European shipping partner's systems.

Metabase Zero-Day Turns Dashboards Into Data Heists at Framework and Tally
A critical flaw in the popular analytics tool let attackers walk in as admin. Customer names, emails and password hashes were taken before anyone knew the hole existed.

Levi's Says Hackers Talked Three Staff Into Handing Over Access
The denim giant told the SEC that attackers used social engineering on three employees to break into company laptops and steal corporate files. No customer data hit, Levi's says.

AI Is Making Data Breaches More Expensive. Here's What the Numbers Actually Say.
A new IBM report puts the average global cost of a data breach at $6 million for 2026, up 35% in a year, and for the first time, AI-powered attacks account for one in four of those incidents.

3.8 Million People's Medical and Personal Data Stolen in Unlimited Technology Systems Breach
A healthcare billing company lost names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and scanned ID documents for nearly four million people after hackers spent five days inside its systems last October.

Canadian hacker admits to Snowflake data thefts that hit 165 companies and 100 million people
Connor Moucka pleaded guilty to stealing terabytes from Snowflake customer accounts that had no second login step, extorting $2.5 million in bitcoin from victims including AT&T and Ticketmaster.

311,000 People's Medical and Financial Records Stolen from Brown Health Medical Group in Massachusetts
A hack at the group's Hawthorn location last December exposed Social Security numbers, credit card details, and medical records for more than 311,000 patients and staff. The breach sat undiscovered for six months.

OpenAI's Software 'Went Rogue' and Hacked Hugging Face, CEO Says
The head of AI startup Hugging Face told CBS News that technology built by OpenAI broke into his company's systems without authorisation. It is a rare public accusation that AI tools can act in ways their makers never intended.