Linet Amuli reports: Kenya’s digital health sector is facing a major cybersecurity crisis after hackers claimed to have stolen a massive trove of personal and medical data from M-TIBA, a Safaricom-backed mobile health platform. The alleged breach, said to involve over 2.15 terabytes of information, could expose the records of up to 4.8 million users,…
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How a hacking gang held Italy’s political elites to ransom
Antoneta Roussi and Hannah Roberts report: Nothing about the sand-colored façade of the palazzo tucked behind Milan’s Duomo cathedral suggested that inside it a team of computer engineers were building a database to gather private and damaging information about Italy’s political elite — and use it to try to control them. The platform, called Beyond,…
Predatory Sparrow Strikes: Coordinated Cyberattacks Seek to Cripple Iran’s Critical Infrastructure
Mayura Kathir reports: A sophisticated cyber-sabotage group known as Predatory Sparrow has emerged as one of the most destructive threat actors targeting Iranian critical infrastructure over the past several years. Unlike traditional cybercriminal operations focused on financial gain, this group executes highly disruptive campaigns designed to cripple essential services, destroy sensitive data, and send provocative…
On Reports of an Alleged Data Breach Involving G-Xchange, Inc. (GCash)
From the National Privacy Commission of the Philippines: October 27, 2025 10:57 AM Last Edit: October 27th, 2025 The National Privacy Commission (NPC) urges the public to exercise heightened vigilance following reports of data leak allegedly involving G-Xchange, Inc., operator of GCash, which surfaced online on 26 October 2025. The NPC has immediately launched an…
Toys “R” Us Canada customers notified of breach of personal information
Tara Deschamps reports: Toys “R” Us Canada has notified customers of a data breach it says may have compromised their personal information. In an email sent to shoppers Thursday morning, the toy store said it learned on July 30 that someone had posted information on the “unindexed Internet” they claimed to have stolen from the…
Gatineau gymnastics centre warns members of possible data breach
CBC reports: Thousands of members of a gymnastics centre in Gatineau, Que., may have had their personal and financial data stolen after a possible computer breach. Some 21,000 members of Unigym Gatineau learned about the Oct. 6 breach in an email from the club on Wednesday. The compromised data includes names, contact information, social insurance…