Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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Business Associates Tied to 50% of Breach Victims as AI-Aided Attacks LoomVendor incidents and hacks, especially data thefts and ransomware attacks, continue to plague the healthcare sector, accounting for the majority of major data breaches reported so far this year. The advent of AI tools in the hands of bad actors, will only heighten the threats, experts predict.

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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.

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.

Ransomware Group ShinyHunters' Victims: Schools, Universities, Ambulance ServiceThe Canvas learning management system with over 30 million active K-12 and higher-education student and teacher users worldwide has been breached by attackers, leading to operator Instructure temporarily taking the service offline. Cue homework and exam scheduling chaos.

Prolific ShinyHunters Extortion Group Made 'Pay or Leak' Threat to VictimHome security giant ADT has suffered a data breach that appears to have exposed personally identifiable information tied to 5.5 million customers. Prolific extortionist group ShinyHunters claimed credit for the attack, saying it stole Salesforce data after socially engineering an ADT employee.

Also, Russian Signal Phishing, Iran-Linked Malware, Breaches in Spain and FranceThis week, Tycoon 2FA, Trio-Tech, messaging app spying and a ransomware broker sentenced. Iran-linked hackers. Mazda disclosed a breach. Oracle patched a flaw. North Korean actors weaponized VS Code, a Spanish port ransomware attack, a French teacher data breach and a healthcare firm victim surge.

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.?

Identity Theft Resource Center Catalogs 3,322 Known US Incidents in 2025The number of U.S. organizations that reported falling victim to a data breach in 2025 reached an all-time high, while the number of notifications they sent to affected consumers fell sharply, reports the Identity Theft Resource Center's latest annual breach roundup.

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.

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.

Analysis of Seized LockBit Data Suggests Victims Who Pay Enjoy More Media CoverageBad news for any organization that's ever paid a ransom in a bid to avoid their breach coming to light, or for a promise from attackers to delete stolen data, with a study of seized LockBit data finding that victims who paid a ransom were more likely to see the attack get detailed in the media.

Inotiv Tells SEC 'It's Still Evaluating Full Impact and Notifying Breach Victims'Drug research firm Inotiv in a filing with federal regulators said it is still evaluating the financial and operational impact of an August cyberattack that's linked to ransomware gang Qilin. The company is also notifying nearly 10,000 people whose data was allegedly stolen in the incident.

Breach Notification Service Details Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace Victim CountHackers appear to have stolen personal information pertaining to more than 17 million individuals from peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, including Social Security numbers, contact information and some income and financial details, says the Have I Been Pwned breach notification service.

Criminals Behind Salesloft Breach Continue to Target Salesforce-Using CustomersCustomer relationship management software giant Salesforce has directly notified customers that it won't be complying with ransom demands issued by the data-stealing crime group ShinyHunters, which continues to pressure Salesforce-using customers who fell victim to the Salesloft breach.

Bayhealth Medical Center Was Among Cybercrime Group's Many 2024 Healthcare VictimsBayhealth Medical Center in Delaware - an alleged victim of a 2024 hack by the "notorious" and prolific ransomware gang Rhysida that resulted in a breach affecting nearly a half-million people - has agreed to a preliminary settlement in a proposed class action lawsuit stemming from the incident.

Full Breach Scope Remains Unclear; Hundreds of Organizations Reportedly AffectedThe scope of the Salesloft Drift data breach continues to expand, now counting Cloudflare, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks as victims and what investigators say are many hundreds more organizations that connected their Salesforce, Google Workspace or other tools to Salesloft's AI chatbot.