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A hacktivist group published personnel records of roughly 40,000 to 41,000 DHS employees, including CBP, ICE and CISA staff. DHS acknowledges a potential breach; the source and full scope are unconfirmed, and Okta denies a compromise.
The FBI says it arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator tied to the FBIJobs.gov breach. The suspect is unnamed and no charges are public; Dutch and Jordanian arrests came earlier.
Ransomware crews including Qilin and Inc are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass patched in May, against healthcare, education, government, and energy targets that never updated.
Two critical PHP flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), dubbed PHP2Shell, leaked before patches existed. Emergency fixes are out, exploitation attempts are reported, and CISA says to patch or take PHP systems offline.
A nine-month-long breach of the Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center exposed unencrypted Social Security numbers and military personnel records for over 3 million people, only disclosed publicly this week.
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.
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A hacktivist group published personnel records of roughly 40,000 to 41,000 DHS employees, including CBP, ICE and CISA staff. DHS acknowledges a potential breach; the source and full scope are unconfirmed, and Okta denies a compromise.
The FBI says it arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator tied to the FBIJobs.gov breach. The suspect is unnamed and no charges are public; Dutch and Jordanian arrests came earlier.
Ransomware crews including Qilin and Inc are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass patched in May, against healthcare, education, government, and energy targets that never updated.
Two critical PHP flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), dubbed PHP2Shell, leaked before patches existed. Emergency fixes are out, exploitation attempts are reported, and CISA says to patch or take PHP systems offline.
A nine-month-long breach of the Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center exposed unencrypted Social Security numbers and military personnel records for over 3 million people, only disclosed publicly this week.
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.
Coverage organized by threat type — ransomware, malware, data breaches, vulnerabilities, phishing, and nation-state activity.
A hacktivist group published personnel records of roughly 40,000 to 41,000 DHS employees, including CBP, ICE and CISA staff. DHS acknowledges a potential breach; the source and full scope are unconfirmed, and Okta denies a compromise.
The FBI says it arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator tied to the FBIJobs.gov breach. The suspect is unnamed and no charges are public; Dutch and Jordanian arrests came earlier.
Ransomware crews including Qilin and Inc are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass patched in May, against healthcare, education, government, and energy targets that never updated.
Two critical PHP flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), dubbed PHP2Shell, leaked before patches existed. Emergency fixes are out, exploitation attempts are reported, and CISA says to patch or take PHP systems offline.
A nine-month-long breach of the Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center exposed unencrypted Social Security numbers and military personnel records for over 3 million people, only disclosed publicly this week.
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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A group calling itself the Department of Peace says it stole an internal database of more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, and a transparency nonprofit published it on October 28. DHS says it is aware of a potential breach. Okta, named by the hackers as the source, says it has no evidence of compromise.
A database containing the work details of more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees was published online on October 28, 2026, in what is the third attack on a US government agency to surface in a matter of weeks. The Department of Homeland Security says it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it. Much about how the data was taken remains unconfirmed, and parts of the hackers' account have been disputed.
This report separates what is established from what is claimed. SentinelCores is not linking to the leaked data and is not naming any individual employee.
Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit that publishes leaked and hacked material, posted a searchable database on October 28. A group calling itself the Department of Peace claimed it stole the information and passed it to the nonprofit. Reporting indicates the material was also shared with other researchers who built a searchable version.
Outlets give slightly different sizes. CNBC and UPI report more than 41,000 DHS officials, while CBC and NBC News report roughly 40,000. NBC News says that is about 15% of the more than 260,000 people DHS directly employs. DHS has not confirmed a figure.
According to the reporting, the records cover personnel across several DHS components:
NBC News' subhead says the database includes nearly a third of ICE's workforce. The article text visible to us did not support that figure, and it does not obviously reconcile with the other counts, so we treat it as unverified.
Reports describe names, office and work addresses, contact details, and job descriptions or assignments. UPI's report adds that the data names dozens of operations, including undercover missions, which personnel worked on them, and the technology and vendors used. Reuters verified details for several personnel, which suggests the data is at least partly authentic. CNN reported that a source familiar with the matter confirmed information on some undercover personnel was exposed.
Some reports say the records include phone numbers and emails; other summaries mention only generic "contact information." We have not been able to confirm exactly which fields are included.
The exposure of personnel working on sensitive or covert assignments is the most serious element. Public identification of such employees can create risks of harassment, doxxing, stalking and physical harm, for them and for their families.
The Department of Peace says it carried out the leak in response to DHS immigration enforcement. UPI reports the group's statement refers to a July 17 remark by DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin about "turning up the heat." NBC News described the actors as anti-fascist activists opposed to the Trump administration. These are the group's own statements and reporters' characterizations; the group's identity has not been independently established.
The hackers reportedly said they obtained the data through Okta, the single sign-on service used by DHS. That claim is disputed:
Until DHS or investigators say more, the attack vector is unknown. It is possible the data came from a DHS system, a contractor or a connected application rather than from Okta itself. A denial by the identity provider does not rule out stolen credentials, misconfigured access or abuse of a tenant by an attacker.
DHS said it was aware of a potential breach, takes threats to its personnel seriously and is working to address the situation swiftly and effectively, and said it would update the public as more information becomes available. We found no public DHS statement on the scope or cause.
The leak lands amid a run of incidents targeting US agencies:
These cases differ in actor and method, but they share a target: the personal and operational details of government employees.
For affected DHS personnel and their families:
For security teams, the open question about single sign-on is a reminder to:
Key questions are still open: how the data was obtained, whether Okta or another vendor was involved, the exact number and type of records, and whether more material has been or will be released. SentinelCores will update this report as DHS, Okta or investigators provide confirmed information.
The FBI says it arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator tied to the FBIJobs.gov breach. The suspect is unnamed and no charges are public; Dutch and Jordanian arrests came earlier.
A nine-month-long breach of the Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center exposed unencrypted Social Security numbers and military personnel records for over 3 million people, only disclosed publicly this week.
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.
