Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has revealed a tech support scam was the cause of the massive 2025 data breach at Australian airline Qantas and found the carrier didn’t breach its privacy obligations despite leaking personally identifiable information for 5.7 million customers. Read More …

Hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed

The data of millions of commuters was stolen, Londoners were left out of pocket and 27,000 Transport for London staff were forced to reset their passwords. Over four days in 2024 a pair of teenage hackers had London’s transport network at their Read More …

Supermarket chain Lidl warns customers after data leak

Unknown individuals managed to gain access to customer data held by the supermarket chain Lidl. The German company informed affected customers of this via email this week. Thus far, the supermarket chain has declined to say how many customers were Read More …

Accenture confirms breach after hacker steals 35GB of source code and other data

Accenture has confirmed suffering a cyberattack, days after threat actors started selling an archive allegedly coming from the firm. “We are aware of this isolated matter, and we have remediated its source. There is no impact to Accenture operations and Read More …

An unnamed US county paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals

A US county reportedly paid $1 million to Kairos, an extortion gang that claimed to have stolen more than 2 TB of data, but the county never received independently verifiable proof that the stolen files had been deleted – just Read More …

AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data

AdaptHealth says attackers used social engineering to breach its systems and steal sensitive patient data, including passwords associated with insurance billing. The medical equipment company disclosed the attack to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, noting that attackers accessed internal Read More …

FBI: Cyber Criminal Group TeamPCP

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to highlight the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with the cyber criminal group TeamPCP. TeamPCP actors have conducted large-scale software supply chain compromises by Read More …

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reignited fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect Read More …

Hackers breached DHS information-sharing network

A key Department of Homeland Security information-sharing database was accessed by an unknown threat actor in recent weeks, potentially exposing sensitive data exchanged between federal, state, local and industry partners, according to two people familiar with the matter. DHS investigators Read More …

Japan: Over 14 million login credentials leaked from six ISPs in major data breach

A data breach that has potentially exposed the email and password combinations for over 14 million customers across six internet service providers (ISPs) has been disclosed by Japanese telecoms provider KDDI Corporation. According to the company, hackers exploited a vulnerability Read More …