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64,000 accounts exposed in breach of GTA V cheat service Atlas Menu

Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike 2, has been added to the Have I Been Pwned database following a data breach that exposed tens of …

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Cybercriminals sail away with data from 6 million Carnival customers

Carnival Corporation, one of the world’s largest cruise operators, confirmed a data breach weeks after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it had stolen millions of …

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Police arrest suspect in Ajax football club hack that exposed 300,000 fan records

The Dutch National Police arrested a man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam. “On the morning of Tuesday, May 26, …

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Personal information of 185,000 people exposed after cyberattack on 7-Eleven

Data belonging to about 185,000 people was exposed following a cyberattack on convenience store chain 7-Eleven that was later claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang, …

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Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets …

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Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability exploitation is the dominant initial access vector

Vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the most common way attackers gain initial access to target networks, according to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach …

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Instructure took a risky approach to recover stolen Canvas data

Instructure, the company behind the online learning platform Canvas, said it reached an agreement with the extortion group ShinyHunters to prevent data stolen in a recent …

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Škoda confirms unauthorized access to its online shop

Car manufacturer Škoda discovered that attackers had exploited a vulnerability in its online shop software and gained temporary unauthorized access to the system. What …

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15-year-old detained over massive data breach at French government agency

French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of involvement in a data breach at France Titres, the government agency responsible for issuing official documents. …

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ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy

The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 …

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Hackers claim millions of records stolen in ADT breach

ADT, a Florida-based provider of alarm monitoring solutions, confirmed that hackers breached its systems and accessed a portion of customer data. According to a company …

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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars

French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the …

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