Data breaches and security incidents at named companies.
CenterPoint Energy has told the Texas Attorney General’s Office that 1,062,060 state residents had personal information compromised in a data breach. The Houston-based public utility disclosed the incident to the SEC a month earlier, saying customer data had been stolen…
Cardiac monitoring company iRhythm is notifying more than 360,000 people that their personal information was stolen in a data breach. The company said it identified the incident on 8 June and traced the intrusion to third-party-hosted business applications holding iRhythm…
The anonymous figure behind this summer’s GTA 6 leaks, operating as CyberLeek, has threatened to release a complete playable build of the game unless its Solana meme coin reaches a $30 million market capitalisation. The demand was posted on the…
British online fashion retailer ASOS has said attackers gained access to an employee’s account by impersonating a trusted contact, then used it to send an unauthorised push notification to customers. The company said its investigation, conducted with external experts, found…
Japan’s JPCERT Coordination Center has warned of a run of personal data leaks at Japanese organisations, blaming abuse of mobile app APIs and exploitation of known software flaws. Its October 8 alert names no attacker and no victim, and describes…
A teenager from Amman, Jordan, suspected of leading the ShinyHunters data theft and extortion group has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI. Saif Al-din Khader, who uses the handle Rey, was taken into custody by Jordanian authorities…
ASOS customers received a hostile push notification through the retailer’s own app, claiming its Snowflake environment had been compromised and directing them to Telegram. ASOS confirmed an unauthorised customer notification was sent and said names and contact details may have…
Unauthorised parties accessed the names, addresses and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people in Denmark’s national population register, the country’s digitalization ministry said on 5 October. The access used a private Danish company’s lawful right to look up…
Denmark’s national population register has been breached, exposing the names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people. The database holds around 11 million records in total, covering residents, people who have died and those who have moved abroad. Digital…
Dodo Pizza, a Russian fast-food chain with around 1,500 restaurants across 28 countries, has confirmed that hackers breached its systems and accessed customer personal information. The company said the data potentially exposed includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates…
