Browsing: Theft

Much of the talk about generative artificial intelligence (AI), the large language models that power systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini, has centered around the way these companies gain the staggering amount of data needed to train models through the scraping of data. 

Ransomware gangs spent 2026 doubling down on a strategy that insurers and researchers have warned about for years: steal the data first, encrypt it second, and squeeze victims from both directions. A headline circulating Thursday from Security Boulevard put a number on just how fast that shift has moved, reporting that ransomware-linked data theft “surged…

Berlin’s state government has crossed a line it spent two weeks trying to avoid. On August 31, 2026, officials confirmed that data was actually stolen from the city-state’s administrative network during the Rhysida ransomware attack, moving the story from “hackers claim” to “government admits.” BleepingComputer reported that forensic investigators pinpointed a confirmed data-exfiltration window between…