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ShinyHunters Claims Theft of 200,000+ Florida Driver Records From State DMV System
The extortion crew says it abused a password-reset flaw in Florida's law-enforcement lookup tool, DAVID, and posted Jeffrey Epstein's record as proof.
Fake Student Finance Texts Are Targeting New Students Right Before Their Loan Drops
Criminals are sending convincing fake messages about bank-detail changes to students waiting on their first maintenance loan payment. Here is what is actually going on.
Telus Customers Hit by Account Breach Spanning More Than a Year
Canada's second-largest phone company says criminals used stolen login details to break into customer accounts, access personal data, and in some cases quietly change people's phone plans.
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.
9.5 Million People's Health and Personal Records Stolen in Aesto Health Breach
A Birmingham, Alabama healthcare data company discovered in December 2025 that criminals had broken into its cloud storage and stolen records including Social Security numbers, medical histories, and financial account details belonging to more than 9.5 million people.
Australia drafts new privacy laws to rein in AI data use, smart glasses and identity theft
Proposed legislation would give Australians the right to delete their personal data from social media and search platforms, and a new tool to lock their ID documents against misuse.
Bank Impersonation Scams: How One Target Wasted the Fraudsters' Time for Hours
A reader who received a fake Barclays automated call decided not to hang up. What followed is a useful case study in how these scams work and what you can do when one lands in your lap.
He sent $180,000 to a woman who didn't exist. AI built her face.
A retired Australian psychologist spent a year in a deepfake romance before a six-fingered hand gave the game away. The technology is now good enough to fool a professional trained in human behaviour.
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.
LACMA data breach exposed Social Security numbers and medical records, museum confirms
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art says a July 2025 intrusion leaked names, SSNs, driver's licence numbers and health data. Notifications went out more than a year after detection.
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.
Can you actually stay private online? The case for separate digital identities
Reusing the same email, phone number and card everywhere hands data brokers and criminals a ready-made profile. Compartmentalising your identity blunts that.
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.
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.
Holiday Photos Are Fuelling a New Bank Fraud Scam
Criminals are scanning public Instagram and Facebook posts, then using AI to craft personalised phishing messages that reference where you were and when.