Kim Zetter reports: The investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton’s handling of classified material stemmed in part from an admission Bolton made to the FBI in July 2021 that hackers – believed to be from Iran – had breached his private AOL email account and tried to extort him over classified information contained…
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UK: ‘Catastrophic’ attack as Russians hack files on EIGHT MoD bases and post them on the dark web
Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security…
The Alliance That Wasn’t: A Critical Analysis of ReliaQuest’s Q3 2025 Ransomware Report
Here’s a must-read post, especially if you read and repeated claims that DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit have formed some kind of cartel. Marco A. De Felice writes on SuspectFile: In the recently published “Threat Spotlight: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion in Q3 2025” by ReliaQuest, one particular section drew significant attention: the claim of an alleged “alliance” between three ransomware…
F5 discloses breach tied to nation-state threat actor
Greg Otto reports: F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of…
Months After Being Notified, a Software Vendor is Still Exposing Confidential and Sealed Court Records
In a special edition of “No need to hack when it’s leaking,” DataBreaches reports on a software vendor that, despite multiple attempts by multiple parties, continues to expose confidential and sealed court records. Overview As a matter of policy, DataBreaches does not publish unredacted stolen or leaked data if it would expose personally identifiable or…
They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Interior Health denied it for a decade.
Harvey Cashore, Eva Uguen-Csenge, and Mark Kelley report: Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point. “It’s just been a nightmare.” She says she’s had to…