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Senate HELP Committee Leaders Ask Insurer: What Went Wrong in the Cyberattack?A U.S. Senate committee is demanding details from insurance giant Aflac about the company's recent cyberattack that compromised the personal and health information of a yet undisclosed number of Americans. Senators last year gave the same scrutiny to the Change Healthcare mega-breach.

Also: DSLRoot Turns Homes Into Proxies, Cyberattack Disrupts Swedish TownsThis week: TransUnion incident affects 4.5 million, DSLRoot residential proxies, Operation Serengeti 2.0, ZipLine campaign exploits contact forms, a cyberattack disrupts 200 Swedish municipalities, Maryland Transit Administration hit by ransomware, TAG-144 escalated attacks in South America.

US Cyber Defense Agency Deploys Support to Nevada Following Ransomware IncidentThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI are aiding Nevada after a cyberattack disabled state services, exposing how local governments - amid surging ransomware, IT shortfalls and federal funding cuts - are increasingly reliant on strained national cyber defense resources.

In response to a cyberattack that was first detected on Sunday, the governor shut down in-person services for state offices while restoration efforts are underway.

A cyberattack on Miljödata, an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden's municipal systems, has caused accessibility problems in more than 200 regions of the country. [...]

Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data in July 2025

Researchers raise the alarm that a new, rapidly evolving ransomware strain uses an OpenAI model to render and execute malicious code in real time, ushering in a new era of cyberattacks against enterprises.

Nevada remains two days into a cyberattack that began early Sunday, disrupting government websites, phone systems, and online platforms, and forcing all state offices to close on Monday. [...]

Farmers' HIPAA Breach Affects 1.1 Million; Aflac Is Still Counting VictimsTwo major U.S.-based insurers - Farmers Insurance and Aflac Inc. - have each reported to regulators data breaches involving two recent separate cyberattacks. The breaches follow a spring and summer spree of data exfiltration incidents that hit multiple large players in the insurance sector.

French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack. [...]