Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

CRM Data Theft Tied to OAuth Tokens Stolen From Third-Party Market Intelligence AppSalesforce disabled connections to its customer relationship management environment from third-party app Klue Battlecards as a response to a "security incident." Attackers breached Klue's platform, generated OAuth tokens for Salesforce and stole data, now being held to ransom.

Diagnostics Lab Reported 10.3M Patients Affected by Collection Agency's HackMedical laboratory testing giant Labcorp has agreed to pay $35 million to settle class action litigation stemming from a 2018 hacking incident on now-defunct American Medical Collections Agency. Labcorp reported the vendor breach in 2019 as affecting nearly 10.3 million patients.

Back-Office Servicer's Breach Estimate Has More Than Doubled Since FebruaryThe victim tally in back-office services firm Conduent Business Services' 2024 hack has more than doubled to over 62.2 million individuals, from an earlier estimate of "25 million plus." The incident is now on track to be at least the third-largest health data breach ever reported to regulators.

Breach Is Among Several Recent Major Incidents Involving Billing Software ProvidersA publicly traded cancer treatment firm notified investors that a yet-undisclosed number of patients' information was compromised in a 2025 cybersecurity incident involving a third-party billing software vendor. The Oncology Institute provides cancer treatment care to nearly 2 million patients.

Separate Breach Details Can Bleed Into Each Other, Incident Responders FindCybersecurity investigators who use artificial intelligence tools to draft incident response reports, beware: Information tied to one security incident can contaminate a report into a separate incident, if both get drafted using the same AI tool in the same session, researchers warn.

Incident Involved an Unnamed Third-Party VendorNew York City's municipal healthcare system is notifying nearly 2 million patients of a hacking incident discovered earlier this year involving a third-party vendor. The breach compromised a long list of information, including biometric data such as fingerprints.

Patch Rollout Slows and Ransomware Incident Volume Rises, Finds Latest Verizon DBIRThe frequency of hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in hardware and software to gain initial access to a victim's environment continues to surge, and half of all successful breaches also now involve some type of "ransomware action," according Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report.

State Insurance Officials Seeking Details About Service Firm's Mega Data BreachMissouri regulators are widening their investigation into the 204 hacking incident at Conduent Business Services, alleging that the company has stonewalled the state's attempts to obtain information about the data breach, which is estimated to affect more than 25 million people nationwide.

CareCloud: Intruder Accessed Systems for 8 Hours, Still Assessing Extent of BreachElectronic health records vendor CareCloud has notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of a cyber incident earlier this month that temporarily disrupted the software and accessed one of its EHR environments. The company is assessing whether patient data was accessed or stolen.

Incidents Are Unrelated, Says NYC Health + HospitalsHackers had access to New York City's municipal healthcare system for nearly three months before being detected, stealing data of an undisclosed number of patients. The incident is the second hacking-related data breach within weeks involving a third-party firm hired by NYC Health + Hospitals.

Also, More ShinyHunters Breaches, North Korea Laptop Farm Operator SentencedThis week, Finland's Aleksanteri Kivimäki sentenced. ShinyHunters breaches. Laptop farm rancher sentenced. Oregon state agency hacker sentenced. African scammers arrested. MuddyWater AI-assisted hacks. Advantest ransomware incident, SolarWinds and Microsoft patches. FileZen flaw. QualDerm breach.

State Officials Investigating Breach of Back-Office Services Provider Found in 2025The victim count in the 2024 hack on back-office support services vendor Conduent Business Services has just ballooned again, with the Xerox-spinoff now reporting to Wisconsin regulators that the incident affected "25 million-plus" people nationwide.

Cybercrime Group First Listed Ohio Health System as a Data Theft Victim Last JuneOhio-based Kettering Health is notifying current and former patients and "affiliates" that their personal, health and financial information was potentially compromised in a May 2025 ransomware attack and data theft incident claimed by cybercriminal gang Interlock.

Will the Back-Office Services' Firm Incident Shatter US Data Breach Records?The Texas attorney general office has launched an investigation into the Conduent Business Services hacking incident, which affected about 15.5 million Texans, including about 4 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas members. Will the nationwide victim tally shatter data breach records in the U.S.?

Comstar Paid Feds $75K Last Year to Settle HIPAA Allegations in Same 2022 BreachAn ambulance billing and collections firm has agreed to pay $515,000 to Massachusetts and Connecticut regulators and implement a prescriptive information security program in the aftermath of a 2022 hacking incident affecting the sensitive information of nearly 350,000 residents in those states.

Reported Victim Tally in HCIactive's Health Data Theft Incident SoarsThe victim count in a 2025 hack against a Maryland-based firm that provides "AI-powered" administrative and technology services to healthcare practices soared to nearly 3.1 million nationwide, according to an updated breach report from Healthcare Interactive.

Breach Affected More Than a Dozen Healthcare Clients, 2.5M PatientsElectronic health records vendor Veradigm agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle consolidated class action litigation involving a December 2024 hacking incident discovered in mid-2025 that affected more than a dozen healthcare provider clients and about 2.5 million of their patients.

State Monitoring Incident Involving a Health Entity Worker for Potential FraudThe Minnesota Department of Human Services is notifying nearly 304,000 people of data breach involving someone at a healthcare provider who inappropriately accessed information from an IT system managed by a vendor. State officials are monitoring the incident for potential fraud.

Health Info in Mix With Compromised Data in Latest Breach Hitting a SchoolA for-profit university with campuses in New York and the Caribbean is notifying nearly 321,000 individuals of a December 2024 data theft incident that compromised their personal and health information. Monroe University is among the latest educational institutions disclosing hacks.

Why Are Third-Party Vendor Breaches So Hard to Figure Out?The victim tally of a 2024 hacking incident at medical services provider Conduent again soared after a new regulatory disclosure by the company, in this case to Texas authorities. The company told Lone Star state officials the breach affected nearly 14.8 million Texans, alone.