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Hyundai Capital confirmed on October 3, 2026, that an attacker using an overseas IP address breached a public-facing lookup page on its website, exposing personal information tied to 146 housing-loan agents. The South Korean lender said the intrusion was limited to a webpage customers use to verify loan agent credentials, and that no “general customer”…

Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday

Few business tools rely on each other as heavily as accounting, HR, and payroll. Whether it’s automatically syncing payroll runs to your general ledger or keeping up with ever-shifting labor regulations, these three core functions perform best as a single, unified ecosystem. Software providers know this—which is why today’s top platforms offer either seamless built-in…

Three days after the extortion group ShinyHunters first claimed it had breached Federal Bureau of Investigation systems, the story has shifted from a raw numbers game (how many terabytes, how many agents) to something more pointed: motive. According to The Register, the group says the intrusion was retaliation against the Bureau, not a money grab.…

An OpenAI artificial intelligence (AI) agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing both public and non-public information.

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The first known case of Google’s Gemini AI autonomously hacking into three companies’ systems was brought to light byThe Wall Street Journal(WSJ) on September 18.

A hacking group calling itself FulcrumSec has come forward to claim credit for the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) data breach, telling BleepingComputer in an August 30, 2026 report that it exfiltrated roughly 86 GB of data from the airport operator’s systems. The claim lands just three days after MAG confirmed that data tied to about…

Berlin’s state government has become the newest name on a ransomware leak site. The Rhysida ransomware group posted an entry titled simply “Berlin, Germany” on its dark web portal on August 28, 2026, claiming to hold 5.79 terabytes of data lifted from the city-state’s IT network, spanning roughly 1.44 million files. The group is demanding…

The Accountant 2 has quietly become one of the biggest streaming hits of 2026 — posted to Prime Video’s worldwide top 10 for two consecutive weeks as Jon Bernthal’s career-defining summer drives viewers back to the 2025 thriller — and the reason it holds up on rewatch has less to do with the action and…