Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Lidl disclosed a third-party data breach affecting online shop customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Payment data was not exposed. Lidl contacted customers of its online shop in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands last week to inform them that their personal data had been stolen in an attack on an external IT service provider. […]

Hackers stole data from 4.38 million Aflac Japan customers after accessing its systems for 10 days before the breach was detected. Aflac Japan disclosed that hackers stole the personal information of 4.38 million customers and agents after gaining access to its systems between June 15 and June 25. Attackers stole data from the company policyholder […]

Novo Nordisk suffered a cyberattack where clinical trial data was copied. The breach is confirmed, but no threat actor has claimed responsibility. The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk disclosed a cybersecurity breach that resulted in unauthorized access to internal IT systems and the theft of personal data. The company sells some of the most in-demand […]

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information from more than 137,000 school staff accounts in a Salesforce data theft attack that targeted the widely used Infinite Campus K-12 student information system in March. [...]

'Have I Been Pwned' Founder Troy Hunt Reviews Impact on People and OrganizationsThe volume of data breaches that result in stolen personal data being leaked online has been surging, "courtesy of the ShinyHunters," and while it affects individuals, the organizations being extorted are bearing the brunt of such attacks, said Troy Hunt, founder and CEO of Have I Been Pwned.

Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people. [...]

A new exploit kit for iOS devices and delivery framework dubbed "Darksword" has been used to steal a wide range of personal information, including data from cryptocurrency wallet app. [...]

Tracking pixels let social media companies spy on their users even after they click over to advertiser sites, gleaning credit card info, geolocations, and more, according to an analysis.

Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractor French online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cyberattack hit one of its customer support subcontractors – and criminals are already claiming the haul is far larger than the company's carefully worded notice suggests.…

The ShinyHunters extortion group has published personal information in more than 12 million records allegedly stolen from CarGurus, a U.S.-based digital auto platform. [...]

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…

Ivanti's Endpoint Manager Mobile Flaws Under Active ExploitationThe European Commission fell victim to a cyberattack that could have allowed the theft of some staff personal information. The European Union's executive body said Friday it detected on Jan. 30 an attack on its "central infrastructure managing mobile devices."

The French data protection authority fined the national employment agency €5 million (nearly €6 million) for failing to secure job seekers' data, which allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 43 million people. [...]

A Slovakian national admitted on Tuesday to helping operate a darknet marketplace that sold narcotics, cybercrime tools and services, fake government IDs, and stolen personal information for more than two years. [...]

Endesa says payment info stolen after alleged crook boasted of 1 TB-plus haul Spanish energy giant Endesa is warning customers about a data breach after a cybercrim claimed to have walked off with a vast cache of personal information allegedly tied to more than 20 million people.…

PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more infosec in brief Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem led to theft of users’ personal information.…

Insurer's Hack Could Rank as Largest US Health Data Breach Reported in 2025Supplemental health insurer Aflac is notifying 22.65 million people whose sensitive health and personal information, including Social Security numbers, was potentially compromised in a June data theft incident. The incident will likely rank as the biggest U.S. health data breach reported in 2025.

Insurer's Hack Could Rank as Largest US Health Data Breach Reported in 2025Supplemental health insurer Aflac is notifying 22.65 million people whose sensitive health and personal information, including Social Security numbers, was potentially compromised in a June data theft incident. The incident will likely rank as the biggest U.S. health data breach reported in 2025.

Full Scope of Clop Ransomware Group's Oracle E-Business Suite Hits Still EmergingThe University of Phoenix is notifying 3.5 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a data breach. The theft traces to the Clop ransomware group's supply-chain campaign against users of Oracle E-Business Suite, in which it wield two zero-day vulnerabilities.

Automaker's third security snafu in three years Thousands of Nissan customers are learning that some of their personal data was leaked after unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server, according to the Japanese automaker.…