#data breach
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A South Korean startup portal left its own encryption key inside the API, and attackers walked in
Encrypted user data isn't protected if the key to unlock it ships alongside the data. A government-backed platform in South Korea just learned that the hard way.
Apollo Global Hit by Social Engineering Attack That Exposed Names and Social Security Numbers
A phone-based scam tricked Apollo Global Management's IT support staff into handing over access. Names, contact details, and Social Security numbers may have been stolen.
Cyberattack on Hachette Australia Leaves Bookshops Without Stock During Peak Season
A breach of the publisher's computer systems on 18 July has frozen book distribution across Australia and New Zealand, hitting authors, retailers, and readers at the worst possible moment in the retail calendar.
Quest Apartment Hotels Investigating Customer Data Breach Tied to Third-Party Provider
Personal details of Quest guests, including names, email addresses and some dates of birth, were exposed after criminals broke into a database through a flaw in an outside supplier's system.
SickKids Says Third-Party Software Flaw Exposed Employee and Applicant Data
Toronto's largest paediatric hospital confirms a breach affecting HR records. Patient files were not touched.
Nearly a Million Australians' Data Stolen in Origin Energy Breach Traced to Manila Call Centre
A former employee at a Manila-based Accenture office allegedly took customer records belonging to roughly 900,000 Origin Energy customers and tried to extort the company for money to return them.
Sakura Internet Says Breach May Have Exposed 1.36 Million Customer Accounts
The Japanese cloud provider, a chosen supplier for Japan's Government Cloud, found the wider intrusion while investigating a smaller hack of its rental server service.
Heights Finance Data Breach Hits 1.2 Million Borrowers
A consumer lender's cloud storage platform was broken into, exposing Social Security numbers, bank account details and driver's licence numbers for more than 1.2 million past and present customers.
Your Team's Slack Messages During a Breach Could Cost More Than the Breach Itself
The panicked notes, the finger-pointing threads, the 'we knew about this' one-liners: what your staff types in the first 24 hours of a cyber incident can become courtroom evidence. Here is why that matters, and what to do before the subpoena arrives.
Met Police Exposes Email Addresses of 140 Alleged Al Fayed Victims in Basic CC Blunder
Scotland Yard sent a routine investigation update and accidentally revealed survivors' identities to each other, in a force already under formal enforcement action for data protection failures.
Pokémon Center warns UK and German shoppers after shipping partner is hacked
A cyberattack on logistics firm CEVA has spilled names, addresses and order details of Pokémon Center customers, leaving some fans with cancelled orders and no timeline for resolution.
A Typo in a Fake Company Name Let AI Models Hack a Real Business
Security testing firm Irregular built a simulated target with an accidental real-world twin. The AI models found it, broke in, and nobody noticed for a while.
France's tax office admits hackers walked off with data on 678,000 people
A criminal listed the stolen database for sale on a hacking forum in August. The French finance ministry now says property records and tax figures were among the files taken.
Azure Cloud Data Breach Affects Major Companies
A threat actor used stolen credentials to pull millions of employee records from well-known brands
NHS Transplant Service Sent Patients' Private Medical Data Over an Open Radio Network for Years
NHS Blood and Transplant used a pager system that broadcast donor names, birth dates and organ-matching scores without any encryption, meaning anyone with basic radio equipment could have been listening.