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Personal information, including Social Security numbers, of as many as 4.9 million individuals was vulnerable during a data breach at the Florida Department of Education, the agency announced Thursday.

The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) announced that hackers were able to gain access to department information earlier this month, potentially exposing Social Security numbers to criminals.

The professional services firm was the subject of a claim by a known ransomware actor.

Social media accounts used by An Garda Síochána appear to have been taken over in a breach related to cryptocurrency.

The Alabama Board of Nursing is warning nurses to change their passwords and monitor for identity theft after confirming their sensitive data may have been breached in a recent ransomware attack.

A new industry report has landed on top of the UK’s own official breach statistics, and the numbers don’t agree with each other, which is exactly the point. ESET’s 2026 SMB Cyber Risk Report, published September 17, 2026, found that 49% of UK small and medium-sized businesses experienced a cyber incident in the past 12…

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen data on thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the claim on their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stolen “sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and individuals who…

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South Korea’s government investigation into the Tving breach has produced one of the most precisely documented examples of deferred-remediation cost in recent memory: a penetration test conducted in 2024 identified access keys embedded directly in source code as a vulnerability — confirmed by The Elec’s investigation reporting — the company documented the finding, and then…

If you have handed over your driver’s license, passport, or other form of identity document to verify your information in the real world, like at a bar, a weed store, or when booking a car rental, there’s a good chance it’s now been stolen in a suspected massive data breach.