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GitHub’s May 2026 breach exposed internal repositories through a poisoned VS Code extension; months later, South Korean police discovered widespread token leaks during an unrelated investigation.
Multiple prison systems exposed inmate and staff data in breaches affecting hundreds of thousands of people, from the federal level down to state facilities.
Federal authorities secured a major conviction against a Ryuk ransomware operator, imposing a 15-year prison sentence for attacks that cost victims hundreds of millions.
Healthcare breaches cost $10.22 million per incident in 2026, yet most organizations lack MFA and continuous monitoring—and HIPAA rules are about to get much stricter.
The Argentine Football Association’s systems fell to infostealer malware on a developer’s machine, exposing databases and compromising institutional email accounts during the 2026 World Cup.
A ransomware negotiator secretly provided attacker intelligence to hackers, helping them extort $75 million from victims.
million social media accounts were hacked in 2025; victims of intimate image theft now have federal tools and resources to fight back.
Saint Paul disclosed a July 2025 cyberattack affecting 12,484 residents and city employees, with 43 GB of sensitive data stolen including Social Security numbers.
Education sector faces 16% surge in ransomware as AI automates attacks—making sophisticated operations accessible to less-skilled actors.
A Windows backdoor that can deploy either ransomware encryption or data-destroying wiper payloads gives attackers unprecedented flexibility in deciding your organization’s fate.
Breach coverage goes wrong in two directions: inflating an exposure into a certainty, or burying it. We publish the disclosed numbers, name the source, and mark clearly where an investigation is still open and the count may change.
Most people find out from a letter weeks after the fact. These are the steps that still work at that point, in the order they should be done, with what each one does and does not protect.
Primary sources: the breached organization's own notification letter, filings in state Attorney General breach databases, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services breach portal for healthcare incidents, SEC filings, court records and regulator announcements. Where we cite a figure, that figure comes from one of those documents.
Not necessarily, and the difference matters. Most notices state that an unauthorized party accessed or acquired data. That is a different finding from evidence that the data has been used for fraud. We report which one a given notice supports, and we do not fill the gap with speculation.
No. Only the organization that holds your records can confirm that, and it is required to notify you. What we can do is tell you what was disclosed, who the claims administrator or notification contact is, and what steps are worth taking while you wait.
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