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Japan's Biggest Cloud Provider Found a 1.36-Million-Account Breach by Accident

Aug 21, 2026

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5 min read

Japan's Biggest Cloud Provider Found a 1.36-Million-Account Breach by Accident

Also: a ransomware gang's own anti-detection trick broke its own encryption tool, and one web page can trick Grok into leaking your name, location, and full chat history.

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WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY


Aug 19, 2026

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5 min read

A Mystery Attacker Has Been Reading Salesforce and ServiceNow Data Worldwide for 17 Months

Also: a real-time deepfake mask glitched for less than a second and blew a fraudster's cover, and a $100 coin-sized gadget can hijack a Boeing 737's flight computers in under a minute.

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Aug 17, 2026

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5 min read

An AI Agent Ran a Full Cyberattack on Taiwan's Government With No Human Driving

Also: DEF CON attendees allegedly jammed a Delta flight's WiFi to phish fellow passengers mid-air, and Clop's ransomware spree just hit Shell, GE, and Philips.

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+5

Aug 14, 2026

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6 min read

Microsoft Threatened Him With "Legal Action." He Responded With a Working Windows Defender Exploit.

Also: a cyberattack on Japan's biggest cold-storage company turned into a national KFC crisis, and ransomware locked hospital doors and killed the HVAC at Manitoba's largest hospital.

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PRIOR RELEASES


A Zero-Day in a Business Intelligence Tool Just Breached LexisNexis, a Laptop Maker, and a Form Startup

A Zero-Day in a Business Intelligence Tool Just Breached LexisNexis, a Laptop Maker, and a Form Startup

Also: an IT department taped everyone's login credentials to their laptops and a contractor used them to break in, and a Senate hearing revealed AI fraud cost seniors $7.7 billion last year.

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A Phone Call Convinced Citadel, Point72, and Two Sigma They Needed New MFA. It Was a Scam.

A Phone Call Convinced Citadel, Point72, and Two Sigma They Needed New MFA. It Was a Scam.

Also: a hacker who couldn't hack breached 14 US companies with vague AI prompts, then got caught asking Claude to edit his resume, and a self-spreading worm just infected npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads.

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One Broken Patch Turned Into a Backdoor for Every Company an MSP Touches

One Broken Patch Turned Into a Backdoor for Every Company an MSP Touches

Also: a robot vacuum flaw let hackers spy through your camera and steal your WiFi password, and 114,000 UK police officers just had their contact info dumped on the dark web.

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A Firmware Bug Sat Dormant for Five Years. Then Someone Drained $70 Million in Bitcoin in 41 Minutes.

A Firmware Bug Sat Dormant for Five Years. Then Someone Drained $70 Million in Bitcoin in 41 Minutes.

Also: an ad company's hacked script quietly rewrote people's crypto wallet addresses, and Anthropic caught its own Claude models hacking three real companies during a safety test.

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A Coordinated Cyberattack Just Hit 30 Minnesota Water Utilities. One Plant Went Dark.

A Coordinated Cyberattack Just Hit 30 Minnesota Water Utilities. One Plant Went Dark.

Also: a ransomware gang extorted a rival ransomware gang and posted an apology on its own victim's site, and an AI music startup's 55 million users just learned their breach happened nine months before anyone told them.

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Russian Spies Read NATO's Mail for Months. The Patch Didn't Evict Them.

Russian Spies Read NATO's Mail for Months. The Patch Didn't Evict Them.

Also: MyPillow's Mike Lindell got his own ransomware deadline, and nobody was watching the AI agent that hacked Thailand's treasury for days.

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+5

Hackers Took Down Romania's Land Registry. Nobody Could Buy a House for a Week.

Hackers Took Down Romania's Land Registry. Nobody Could Buy a House for a Week.

Also: North Korea arrested its own hackers for robbing its own banks, and one bad link can plant a rogue AI agent inside your company.

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Australia's Biggest Energy Company Got Hacked. 4.8 Million Customers Are Being Blackmailed.

Australia's Biggest Energy Company Got Hacked. 4.8 Million Customers Are Being Blackmailed.

Also: a manager crashed his entire company network trying to learn Nmap, and OpenAI's own AI hacked another company just to win a test.

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+5

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