In September 2024 the French national pension fund Assurance Retraite suffered a data breach affecting approximately 370k assistance beneficiaries. The dataset was added to Have I Been Pwned on 20 Oct 2026 and contains 70.4k unique email addresses. Exposed data includes names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, income leve…
An unauthorized party used a compromised login credential to access a file transfer (SFTP) site belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and copy files containing California public school student data, according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS supports the state's CAASPP and ELPAC assessment programs. Access occ…
A public repository exposed sensitive data from Smart Sampa, the Prefeitura de São Paulo video surveillance system, for about 11 months, allowing unauthorized access to more than 58,000 cameras. Cameras covered sensitive sites such as daycare centers, schools, hospitals and drug-treatment centers. According to UOL, reporters used the expo…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…
Yokai Research (Hakai Security) published an analysis and a public proof-of-concept for GHSA-f9x3-7vq9-cph6, a critical authentication bypass (CVSS v4 9.2) in the Laravel framework's built-in TokenGuard, which backs auth:api. The flaw was discovered by KIKOmanasijev and reported via the GitHub Security Advisory program. When the user tabl…
Japanese media group Nikkei (publisher of The Nikkei and the Financial Times) disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.83 million records held in a cloud service used for system development. On the morning of October 7, attackers used previously compromised credentials to access the service. About 1.68 million records held only non-ident…
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a third data breach in about a month, exposing 1.83 million records stored in the cloud. Attackers used stolen credentials to access a development system in the early hours of October 7. About 150,000 records contained at least one of: full names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers or dates of birth, …
On July 25, 2026, Hacktron researchers chained a heap buffer overflow in libheif (reached through ImageMagick in Discourse's image-upload pipeline) with an OpenAI SSO weakness. This gave them RCE on the OpenAI community forum and takeover of ChatGPT/Codex accounts of forum users and OpenAI employees. To prove impact without reading sensit…
Cisco disclosed a critical authentication bypass, CVE-2026-76504, in the API session-based authentication management of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can send a crafted HTTP request and gain access to the API with the privileges of the admin user. Cisco has released software updates and states that no …
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20321, a command injection vulnerability in the web-based management API of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). An authenticated, remote attacker with valid administrative credentials could execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system. Cisco rates the Security Impact…
Flashpoint's first monthly insider threat report, drawn from its Primary Source Collection (PSC), identified 9,787 insider-related posts across 1,216 channels and 1,778 authors in September 2026. Overall volume fell, but threat actors kept recruiting insiders and advertising insider access, mostly to enable fraud. Flashpoint counted 857 u…
Wiz describes a supply chain detection pipeline that analyzes new npm package versions at publication, so malicious releases can be flagged before a CVE or advisory exists. Wiz Research says notable supply chain attacks rose from about 10% of significant incidents in H2 2025 to 25% in H1 2026. The article cites two compromises: the Axios …
The UK Information Commission's Office (ICO) issued reprimands, not fines, to Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales (Data Cymru) after a ransomware attack on 1 November 2024. The intruder used a forgotten test account, Test2, created in January 2012 with the password "Password1", to enter Data Cymru's netwo…
OVHcloud disclosed a supply-chain attack on its command-line interface (CLI) repository on GitHub. An attacker used a compromised developer's GitHub account to insert a malicious binary designed to retrieve secrets from users' disks. CEO Octave Klaba confirmed the incident on 19 October 2026 after a customer report. The compromised releas…
Kaspersky Security Services published a threat-model paper on how attackers can compromise modern logistics warehouses. It follows an order through eight fulfillment stages: unloading, receiving, putaway, storage, picking, sorting, packing and shipment. The paper identifies the warehouse management system (WMS) as the highest-value target…
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…
A command injection vulnerability, CVE-2026-4802, was disclosed in Cockpit, the web-based Linux administration tool from Red Hat. It was found by Hakai's Research team. Any authenticated user, including low-privilege accounts such as viewer, can inject OS commands through the system logs filter feature and obtain remote code execution on …
A privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-16764 (GHSA-w2j3-x3j3-mm43, CVSS 3.1 7.8, CWE-269), affects OWASP DefectDojo. The REST API UserSerializer validates changes to issuperuser but not to isstaff. An authenticated user holding only the delegated auth.changeuser permission can therefore make themselves staff and then become superuser throu…
The FBI has publicly called on remaining ShinyHunters members to surrender. Cyber division assistant director Brett Leatherman released a video thanking Dutch police for arresting a 24-year-old in Amsterdam. The FBI calls him "one of the alleged leaders" of the group, while Dutch police say only that he played a role. He is also suspected…