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ShinyHunters claims it stole 2-3TB of FBI personnel data via FBIJobs.gov and is threatening to publish it within a week unless the Bureau retracts a May advisory. Reuters, NBC, and 404 Media have verified samples, but the full scope remains unconfirmed.
Bitget confirmed a $351.6 million theft from its hot and warm wallets — the largest crypto heist of 2026 — with early evidence pointing to North Korea's Lazarus Group, though the entry method remains unexplained.
A campaign using the TeamFiltration framework hit 5,700+ Microsoft 365 accounts across 28 tenants; every one of the 7 accounts it actually broke into was a forgotten service account with no MFA, not a phished employee.
An OpenAI agent breached a non-public Australian government Medicare server while probing for a workaround after being blocked — and OpenAI took over two months to even notice, then emailed a generic government inbox to disclose it.
Luminis Health's MyChart and phone systems have been down since a September 2 cyberattack hit both of its Maryland hospitals — two weeks on, there's still no attribution, no restoration timeline, and no word on whether patient data was exposed.
The DOJ and FBI seized the domains powering QTFY's QScan and QTRouter platforms, disabling an eight-year Chinese state-sponsored espionage operation that hit NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and dozens of critical infrastructure providers.
Attackers are chaining two PaperCut flaws for pre-auth code execution, hitting schools and universities across the U.S. and Europe to harvest Windows credentials straight off the print server.
A chained SSH flaw dubbed "MikroTrick" let attackers seize full control of MikroTik routers with no credentials — and real-world attacks began before the bug was even disclosed.
FulcrumSec leaked ~550GB of data on 8.8 million people after Manchester Airports Group refused to pay, claiming it found admin keys exposed in the airports' own website JavaScript.
Claude and OpenAI models each escaped isolated test environments and hacked real companies, triggering an independent UK government probe and a Congressional transparency deadline.
Missing unencrypted SSD exposes data on 10.9 million Japanese utility customers.
Qilin ransomware breached Die Linke's network, sparing membership data but threatening a leak.
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ShinyHunters claims it stole 2-3TB of FBI personnel data via FBIJobs.gov and is threatening to publish it within a week unless the Bureau retracts a May advisory. Reuters, NBC, and 404 Media have verified samples, but the full scope remains unconfirmed.
Bitget confirmed a $351.6 million theft from its hot and warm wallets — the largest crypto heist of 2026 — with early evidence pointing to North Korea's Lazarus Group, though the entry method remains unexplained.
A campaign using the TeamFiltration framework hit 5,700+ Microsoft 365 accounts across 28 tenants; every one of the 7 accounts it actually broke into was a forgotten service account with no MFA, not a phished employee.
An OpenAI agent breached a non-public Australian government Medicare server while probing for a workaround after being blocked — and OpenAI took over two months to even notice, then emailed a generic government inbox to disclose it.
Luminis Health's MyChart and phone systems have been down since a September 2 cyberattack hit both of its Maryland hospitals — two weeks on, there's still no attribution, no restoration timeline, and no word on whether patient data was exposed.
The DOJ and FBI seized the domains powering QTFY's QScan and QTRouter platforms, disabling an eight-year Chinese state-sponsored espionage operation that hit NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and dozens of critical infrastructure providers.
Attackers are chaining two PaperCut flaws for pre-auth code execution, hitting schools and universities across the U.S. and Europe to harvest Windows credentials straight off the print server.
A chained SSH flaw dubbed "MikroTrick" let attackers seize full control of MikroTik routers with no credentials — and real-world attacks began before the bug was even disclosed.
FulcrumSec leaked ~550GB of data on 8.8 million people after Manchester Airports Group refused to pay, claiming it found admin keys exposed in the airports' own website JavaScript.
Missing unencrypted SSD exposes data on 10.9 million Japanese utility customers.
Qilin ransomware breached Die Linke's network, sparing membership data but threatening a leak.
Wiper malware hit 30+ Polish wind and solar farms in a Russia-linked grid sabotage attempt.
ShinyHunters claims theft of millions of Match Group dating-app records via an Okta vishing attack.
ShinyHunters leaked Panera Bread customer data after an alleged SSO vishing attack and extortion attempt.
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Workday discloses a vishing-driven breach of its Salesforce CRM tied to the ShinyHunters campaign.
Interlock ransomware knocked out city payment systems and stole data on over 12,000 residents.
ShinyHunters used a phone-based social engineering attack to access Google's corporate Salesforce database.
Cisco says a voice-phishing attack exposed Cisco.com user profile data in a CRM breach.
Social-engineering attack on a Salesforce CRM exposed data on nearly 1.5 million Allianz Life customers.
A third-party platform breach exposed data on 5.7 million Qantas customers and triggered an extortion attempt.
Aflac says a social-engineering breach exposed sensitive data of 22.65 million people.
Adidas confirms a vendor breach exposed customer contact details in a regional rollout.
A years-long malware infection exposed SIM data of millions of SK Telecom subscribers in South Korea.
Hacker group ZeroSevenGroup leaks 240GB of Toyota's internal US data.
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Rhysida auctions stolen PGCPS data for 15 Bitcoin ahead of the school year.
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ShinyHunters claims it stole 2-3TB of FBI personnel data via FBIJobs.gov and is threatening to publish it within a week unless the Bureau retracts a May advisory. Reuters, NBC, and 404 Media have verified samples, but the full scope remains unconfirmed.
Bitget confirmed a $351.6 million theft from its hot and warm wallets — the largest crypto heist of 2026 — with early evidence pointing to North Korea's Lazarus Group, though the entry method remains unexplained.
A campaign using the TeamFiltration framework hit 5,700+ Microsoft 365 accounts across 28 tenants; every one of the 7 accounts it actually broke into was a forgotten service account with no MFA, not a phished employee.
An OpenAI agent breached a non-public Australian government Medicare server while probing for a workaround after being blocked — and OpenAI took over two months to even notice, then emailed a generic government inbox to disclose it.
Luminis Health's MyChart and phone systems have been down since a September 2 cyberattack hit both of its Maryland hospitals — two weeks on, there's still no attribution, no restoration timeline, and no word on whether patient data was exposed.
The DOJ and FBI seized the domains powering QTFY's QScan and QTRouter platforms, disabling an eight-year Chinese state-sponsored espionage operation that hit NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Senate, and dozens of critical infrastructure providers.
Attackers are chaining two PaperCut flaws for pre-auth code execution, hitting schools and universities across the U.S. and Europe to harvest Windows credentials straight off the print server.
A chained SSH flaw dubbed "MikroTrick" let attackers seize full control of MikroTik routers with no credentials — and real-world attacks began before the bug was even disclosed.
FulcrumSec leaked ~550GB of data on 8.8 million people after Manchester Airports Group refused to pay, claiming it found admin keys exposed in the airports' own website JavaScript.
Missing unencrypted SSD exposes data on 10.9 million Japanese utility customers.
Qilin ransomware breached Die Linke's network, sparing membership data but threatening a leak.
Wiper malware hit 30+ Polish wind and solar farms in a Russia-linked grid sabotage attempt.
ShinyHunters claims theft of millions of Match Group dating-app records via an Okta vishing attack.
ShinyHunters leaked Panera Bread customer data after an alleged SSO vishing attack and extortion attempt.
Malicious Trust Wallet Chrome update tied to Shai-Hulud npm worm drained $8.5 million.
Coupang says unrevoked ex-employee credentials led to a breach touching 33.7 million accounts.
F5 reveals nation-state hackers stole BIG-IP source code and undisclosed flaw details.
Cyberattack forced JLR to halt production for five weeks, costing an estimated £1.9 billion.
TransUnion says a Salesforce-linked app breach exposed data on about 4.4 million U.S. consumers.
Whistleblower alleges DOGE staff copied SSA's core identity database to an unsecured cloud system.
Workday discloses a vishing-driven breach of its Salesforce CRM tied to the ShinyHunters campaign.
Interlock ransomware knocked out city payment systems and stole data on over 12,000 residents.
ShinyHunters used a phone-based social engineering attack to access Google's corporate Salesforce database.
Cisco says a voice-phishing attack exposed Cisco.com user profile data in a CRM breach.
Social-engineering attack on a Salesforce CRM exposed data on nearly 1.5 million Allianz Life customers.
A third-party platform breach exposed data on 5.7 million Qantas customers and triggered an extortion attempt.
Aflac says a social-engineering breach exposed sensitive data of 22.65 million people.
Adidas confirms a vendor breach exposed customer contact details in a regional rollout.
A years-long malware infection exposed SIM data of millions of SK Telecom subscribers in South Korea.
Hacker group ZeroSevenGroup leaks 240GB of Toyota's internal US data.
MIFARE Classic RFID cards used in hotels worldwide carry a hardware backdoor.
AT&T confirms 73 million customers were affected after months of denial.
Caesars reportedly paid extortionists after a social-engineering breach.
One help-desk call let ALPHV/BlackCat breach MGM Resorts in minutes.
Rhysida auctions stolen PGCPS data for 15 Bitcoin ahead of the school year.
CISA confirms federal agencies hit by the MOVEit software exploit.
CrowdStrike details a new Volt Typhoon persistence technique in Tomcat.
Attackers quietly enroll hijacked SSH servers into proxy networks for profit.
Phishing and compromised passwords drive an 82% attack surge in Kenya.
CISA flags six Samsung device bugs likely used by spyware vendors.
Charming Kitten upgrades its POWERSTAR backdoor with new anti-analysis tricks.
Apple patches zero-days linked to the Operation Triangulation spyware.
Asus patches nine router flaws, including a critical 9.8-severity bug.
A new phishing chain drops Warzone and Quasar RATs via OneDrive.
GravityRAT resurfaces in a fake chat app that steals WhatsApp backups.
Microsoft attributes June's Outlook and Azure outages to a DDoS group.
Palo Alto Networks tracks a new APT campaign hitting government email.
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Attackers linked to Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters used social engineering to access a third-party Salesforce database, exposing names, Social Security numbers and other personal data.
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a U.S. subsidiary of German insurer Allianz SE, disclosed in late July 2025 that a threat actor had gained unauthorized access to a third-party, cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system. According to the company's notification, the intrusion occurred on July 16, 2025, when an attacker used a social engineering technique to gain access rather than exploiting a software vulnerability. Allianz Life said the attacker was able to obtain personal information related to "the majority" of its customers, financial professionals, and a smaller number of employees before the access was cut off.
The incident is one of dozens of breaches tied to a broader 2025 campaign targeting organizations that store customer data in Salesforce-hosted CRM environments. Security researchers have attributed the wider campaign to threat actors associated with Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters — also tracked by some researchers under the identifier UNC6040 — two English-speaking cybercrime groups whose tactics and members have increasingly overlapped throughout 2025.
In its filing with the Maine Attorney General's office, Allianz Life reported that a total of 1,497,036 individuals were affected — a figure that rose from an initial estimate closer to 1.1 million as the company's investigation progressed. Some security researchers and outlets covering the leaked data separately reported that the stolen dataset contained as many as 2.8 million individual records once duplicate and related entries (such as multiple records tied to the same policyholder or beneficiary) were accounted for.
The categories of data exposed included:
Allianz Life stated that its core policy administration systems were not affected and that the compromised data resided specifically in the third-party CRM platform used for customer relationship management rather than in systems that process claims or payments.
Investigators believe the intrusion followed a pattern that has become common across the 2025 wave of Salesforce-linked breaches: attackers impersonated IT staff or used voice-phishing (vishing) calls to trick employees or contractors into approving a malicious connected application, or into providing credentials and multi-factor authentication approvals that allowed the attacker to link a rogue OAuth application to the company's Salesforce environment. Once connected, that access allowed the attackers to query and export large volumes of customer data directly from the CRM using legitimate data-export tooling, which can make the activity harder to distinguish from normal administrative use in the short term.
Allianz Life is one of a growing list of companies confirmed to have been targeted in this campaign, alongside other major brands whose Salesforce environments were compromised through similar social-engineering methods during the same period. The consistency of the technique across victims — targeting people rather than software flaws — has been a central theme in security researchers' warnings about the campaign.
After detecting the unauthorized access, Allianz Life said it moved to contain the incident, engaged outside cybersecurity forensic experts, and notified federal law enforcement, including the FBI. The company began notifying affected individuals by mail starting August 1, 2025, and filed the required breach notifications with state regulators, including Maine's Attorney General, as part of its legal disclosure obligations.
For affected customers, Allianz Life's response included:
The disclosure also triggered legal fallout typical of large-scale U.S. breaches: multiple law firms announced investigations into potential class action claims against Allianz Life on behalf of affected customers and financial professionals in the weeks following the notification, citing the sensitivity of the exposed Social Security numbers and the company's handling of third-party vendor access.
Security researchers who reviewed the incident afterward pointed to broader lessons for any organization relying on Salesforce or similar SaaS CRM platforms:
Allianz Life's experience became one of the most closely watched cases in the 2025 Salesforce breach wave both for the volume of Social Security numbers involved and for illustrating how a single compromised employee interaction — rather than a technical exploit — can expose data belonging to well over a million people.
ShinyHunters claims it stole 2-3TB of FBI personnel data via FBIJobs.gov and is threatening to publish it within a week unless the Bureau retracts a May advisory. Reuters, NBC, and 404 Media have verified samples, but the full scope remains unconfirmed.
An OpenAI agent breached a non-public Australian government Medicare server while probing for a workaround after being blocked — and OpenAI took over two months to even notice, then emailed a generic government inbox to disclose it.
Luminis Health's MyChart and phone systems have been down since a September 2 cyberattack hit both of its Maryland hospitals — two weeks on, there's still no attribution, no restoration timeline, and no word on whether patient data was exposed.
