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Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people
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Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people

Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS), a healthcare billing provider, revealed that over 1.2 million people's private information was compromised in a 2025 network breach. The number of people who might have been impacted was not specified when the security breach was revealed late last month. According to the company's statement to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1,261,464 individuals have been affected. With its headquarters located in Augusta, Georgia, MCBS is a regional private medical billing and practice management company that offers healthcare organizations billing, coding, accounts receivable, financial, and administrative services. The business processes patient records for healthcare providers in its capacity as an aggregator of healthcare data. ...
Chick-fil-A discloses data breach after credential stuffing attacks
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Chick-fil-A discloses data breach after credential stuffing attacks

Following a wave of recent credential stuffing assaults, the American fast-food restaurant business Chick-fil-A is alerting an unspecified number of customers about a data breach. Chick-fil-A, which claims to be the third-largest quick-service restaurant chain in the US, has over 3,000 locations and offers catering services in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, the UK, and Singapore. The firm disclosed that it discovered the attacks after noticing unusual login activity to certain Chick-fil-A One accounts in data breach notification letters delivered to impacted people and submitted with many Attorney General offices. The attackers attacked Chick-fil-A's website and mobile app in June, as the company found out while looking into the incident. After conducting a thorough investigatio...
Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw
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Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw

After hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite, which the company utilized for human resources (HR) operations, cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is alerting consumers to a data breach. According to the company, it discovered an intrusion that happened on August 9, 2025, which allowed the threat actor to get certain people's personal information last month. According to the notification, we learned of a cybersecurity vulnerability in the Oracle E-Business Suite system, which the Estee Lauder Companies employ for HR management. Our investigation revealed on June 19, 2026, that an unauthorized third party had accessed the Oracle E-Business Suite system on or around August 9, 2025, and had taken specific people's personal information. A sample of the disclo...
Insurance giant Aflac discloses data breach after subsidiary hack
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Insurance giant Aflac discloses data breach after subsidiary hack

After hackers gained access to the computers of its Japan subsidiary and stole bank account and personal information, the massive American insurance company Aflac announced a new data breach. The largest supplemental insurance provider in the US, Aflac (short for American Family Life Assurance Company) is a Fortune 500 company that serves millions of clients in the US and Japan. Threat actors were able to enter Aflac Japan's systems earlier this month, the company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday. Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. ("Aflac Japan"), a fully owned subsidiary of Aflac Incorporated, a Georgia corporation (the "Company"), announced in a press release on June 30, 2026, that it had discovered on June 25, 2026, that an u...
Crypto-exchange Kraken extorted by hackers after insider breach
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Crypto-exchange Kraken extorted by hackers after insider breach

A cybercrime organization is attempting to extort the company by threatening to leak footage of internal systems that house customer data, according to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange. According to Nick Percoco, the company's chief security officer, the event featured an insider threat with two instances of support staff improperly accessing limited customer data, although it did not endanger client cash. Kraken declares that it will neither pay the threat actor nor engage in negotiations. According to Percoco, a criminal organization is now extorting us by threatening to leak films of our internal systems that display client data if we don't comply with their demands. Starting with the most crucial things is crucial: our systems were never compromised, money was never in j...
European Gym giant Basic-Fit data breach affects 1 million members
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European Gym giant Basic-Fit data breach affects 1 million members

The massive Dutch exercise company Basic-Fit revealed that a million clients' personal data was compromised by hackers. With more than 1,700 clubs and more than 430 franchises spread throughout 12 nations, including the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, and Germany, the corporation runs the biggest gym chain in Europe. Club members affected by the cyberattack have been immediately informed, according to a statement Basic-Fit posted on its website earlier today. According to the notification, Basic-Fit has informed the appropriate data protection authorities today about illegal access to the system that keeps track of members' visits to Basic-Fit clubs read more about European Gym giant Basic-Fit data breach affects 1 million members. Get up to date on the latest cybers...
Advertising giant Dentsu reports data breach at subsidiary Merkle
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Advertising giant Dentsu reports data breach at subsidiary Merkle

The massive Japanese advertising company Dentsu revealed that a cybersecurity breach at its U.S. affiliate Merkle compromised employee and customer information. As part of their reaction strategy, the corporation claims that the incident compelled them to take several systems offline. According to Dentsu's disclosure, we found unusual activity in a portion of Merkle's network, which is in charge of our group's foreign CXM (Customer Experience Management) division. We started our incident response processes right away, took quick action to lessen the damage, and proactively shut down some systems as a precaution. Without describing the extent of the occurrence, the business claims that it complied with its legal requirements by reporting it to the appropriate authorities in each affe...
Google disputes false claims of massive Gmail data breach
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Google disputes false claims of massive Gmail data breach

Following spectacular news reports of a fictitious hack that allegedly exposed 183 million accounts, Google was once again compelled to declare that it had not experienced a data breach. News reports stating that millions of Gmail accounts were compromised started to surface over the weekend and continued into today. According to some publications, the entire 183 million accounts were compromised. Gmail did not experience a breach, the company clarified in a series of articles on Monday, and the compromised accounts were instead a collection of credentials that had been acquired over the years by information-stealing malware and other attacks. The 'Gmail security breach impacting millions of users' reports that have been reported are untrue. Gmail's security measures are robust, ...
Toys “R” Us Canada warns customers’ info leaked in data breach
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Toys “R” Us Canada warns customers’ info leaked in data breach

Customers of Toys "R" Us Canada have received notifications of a data breach, alerting them to a security event in which threat actors released customer data they had previously taken from the company's systems. When a threat actor exposed what they claimed to be Toys "R" Us customer data on the dark web on July 30, 2025, the firm learned about the data leak. Third-party specialists assisted in a subsequent inquiry of the threat actor's assertions, which verified that the material was accurate. According to the letter given to clients, we learned about a third-party's claim of stealing information from our database on July 30, 2025, through a posting on the unindexed internet. We promptly engaged outside cybersecurity specialists to help with issue investigation and containment. ...
Auction giant Sotheby’s says data breach exposed customer information
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Auction giant Sotheby’s says data breach exposed customer information

Customers of Sotheby's, a well-known worldwide auction business, are being alerted about a data breach incident on its systems in which threat actors acquired private data, including financial information. After the attack was discovered on July 24, it took two months to investigate and identify the kinds of data that were taken and the people who were affected. In addition to offering asset-backed loan services, Sotheby's is a well-known international auction house for fine art and valuable goods. The company's overall sales last year were $6 billion, and it handles auction sales worth billions of dollars every year. Full names, Social Security numbers (SSNs), and financial account information are among the data made public by the incident, according to a filing the group made t...