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Aflac, which provides supplemental insurance to around 50 million individuals whose expenses are not covered by their primary providers, said it was not yet known how many customers are affected by the data breach but that the personal data includes customers' claims, such as Social Security numbers and health information.

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Baker University has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to its network one year ago and stole the personal, health, and financial information of over 53,000 individuals.

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The Clop ransomware gang has stolen the data of nearly 3.5 million University of Phoenix (UoPX) students, staff, and suppliers after breaching the university's network in August.

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Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Nissan) has confirmed that information of thousands of its customers has been compromised after the data breach at Red Hat in September.

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Coupang, South Korea's leading e-commerce platform, recently disclosed a data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts which is equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the Korean population.

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Threat actors stole names, Social Security numbers, and financial and health information, and deployed ransomware on RBHA’s systems.

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Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students.

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Browser extensions that promise privacy are found to be selling AI conversations from millions of users. Security researchers at Koi Security discovered that popular VPN and ad blocker extensions are secretly intercepting all conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and reselling them to data brokers.

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Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users' email addresses and profile information.

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Japanese e-commerce giant Askul Corporation has confirmed that RansomHouse hackers stole around 740,000 customer records in the ransomware attack it suffered in October.

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Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters extortion gang after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach.

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700Credit, a U.S.-based financial services and fintech company, will start notifying more than 5.8 million people that their personal information has been exposed in a data breach incident.

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Automaker admits raid that crippled its factories in August led to the theft of sensitive info

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The French Interior Minister confirmed on Friday that the country's Ministry of the Interior was breached in a cyberattack that compromised e-mail servers.

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A data breach at Coupang that exposed the information of 33.7 million customers has been tied to a former employee who retained access to internal systems after leaving the company.

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An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Gogs, a popular self-hosted Git service, has enabled attackers to gain remote code execution on Internet-facing instances and compromise hundreds of servers.

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The National Police in Spain have arrested a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona, for allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64 million records obtained from breaches at nine companies.

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Barts Health NHS Trust, a major healthcare provider in England, announced that Clop ransomware actors have stolen files from one of its databases after exploiting a vulnerability in its Oracle E-business Suite software.

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American pharmaceutical firm Inotiv is notifying thousands of people that they're personal information was stolen in an August 2025 ransomware attack.

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Financial software provider Marquis Software Solutions is warning that it suffered a data breach that impacted dozens of banks and credit unions across the US.

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French home improvement and gardening retailer Leroy Merlin is notifying customers that their personal info has been compromised in a data breach.

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Freedom Mobile, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in Canada, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked into its customer account management platform and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers.

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The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025.

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Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on

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The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has announced a new data breach after attackers stole documents containing personal information from its Oracle E-Business Suite servers in August.

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