The US Department of Defense has confirmed a breach of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), one of its main personnel data repositories. The breach exposed sensitive data on roughly 2.76 million people plus about 294,000 deceased individuals. Unauthorised users reportedly accessed files between October 2025 and 16 July 2026, and the i…
Zeabur, a developer hosting and deployment platform, disclosed that on October 14-15, 2026 an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its shared clusters, some Dedicated Servers and internal systems, and ultimately read the production database. The breach affected shared clusters in nine regions, 321,81…
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach affecting its services. The FulcrumSec hacking group later claimed the incident and published data relating to 8.8M customers of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. The leaked data includes email addresses and phone numbers, along with airport service rec…
A new dark web identity theft service called Nexus, advertised on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit on Aug. 31, 2026, is selling scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada. It also lists over 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents and 579,000 medical cards. KrebsOnSecurity's analysis points to the …
Unknown threat actors breached the TeamUpdraft website on 17-18 October 2026 and likely accessed its customer database, which holds connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. Patchstack observed an attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard keys issuing signed commands to install backdoor plugins on connected …
iRhythm Technologies, maker of the Zio wearable ECG monitor, has had a June 2026 data breach confirmed at roughly 8.18 million individuals, according to the Oregon Attorney General breach list. This is close to its entire customer base of about 8 million patients in the US and Europe. The company first identified unauthorized access on Ju…
Dutch authorities arrested a 24-year-old, reportedly Pepijn van der Stap (alias "Umbreon"), around Sept. 16, 2026 on suspicion of aiding data thefts and extortions by ShinyHunters. Van der Stap was previously convicted in 2023 for data theft and extortion. Days after the arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members escalated, breaching the FBI …
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …