A 26-year-old admits to stealing the data of millions of individuals during a widely reported months-long hacking spree. A 26-year-old Canadian man arrested in October 2024 pleaded guilty last week to a string of data breaches targeting compromised...

Anime streaming service Crunchyroll has confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack, with hackers claiming to have breached a third-party vendor’s internal network and accessed user data. Earlier this week, reports suggesting that threat actors had...

Cloud storage company Snowflake says the breach is not its fault, as the ACSC released an alert warning of “increased cyber threat activity regarding Snowflake customers”. Last week’s Ticketmaster data breach has gotten even more complex over the...

the data stolen in the Ticketmaster and Ticketek hacks earlier this month. On 20 June, Sp1d3r – who may be linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group – made two posts just hours apart, complaining in the first one that “Ticketmaster will not respond to...

to use legitimate data gathered from these servers to carry out a wide campaign of fraud.” Ticketmaster data breach The ShinyHunters hacking collective made headlines with a data breach that impacted 15 million innocent fans of live music and other...

to the hackers being arrested – one in France that appears to have put the final nail into BreachForums’ coffin as both ShinyHunters and IntelBroker are now behind bars, and another here in Australia, as the infamous Western Sydney University hacker was...

In this episode of the Cyber Uncut podcast, David Hollingworth and Daniel Croft discuss the Commonwealth Bank and Atlassian laying off staff to make way for AI, new developments in the Qantas hack, and Ukrainian hackers targeting Aeroflot. Hollingworth...

The US arm of Allianz Life is facing a pair of class action lawsuits in the aftermath of its July 2025 cyber attack, as its customers demand better security and compensation. Earlier this month, Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America told...

Qantas has slashed executive bonuses following its data breach earlier this year. Short-term bonuses for the executive team, including CEO Vanessa Hudson, were cut by 15 percentage points for 2024–25 due to the impact the attack had on Qantas...

Security researchers believe Qantas and Salesforce hackers could be in the middle of a campaign targeting users of the popular help desk platform. Whether you think they’re one of the most dire cyber threats around today, or just a bunch of spoiled...

information, phone numbers, and physical addresses – was posted as punishment for the arrests of hackers with links to ShinyHunters and IntelBroker. 5. Bouygues Telecom France’s third-largest telco disclosed it had fallen victim to a cyber attack in...

Instructure/Canvas breach, which saw schools across the country impacted by a third-party breach perpetrated by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group, one finding is particularly galling. According to the Audit Office, while 98 per cent of schools use...

cyber disruption or violence”. The Com, it is believed, is thought to have links to cyber extortion groups such as ShinyHunters and other hacking collectives. “These online groups go hunting for victims on social media or online games, and many victims...

and the patch becomes a planned event instead of an emergency. Planned does not mean optional. “A month ago, the ShinyHunters gang went back to PeopleSoft servers whose owners had relied on a WAF rule instead of patching, and got past it by changing one...

Ireland’s privacy watchdog has commenced an investigation into the major Dell data breach that occurred earlier this month. Last week, Dell customers were informed by the PC hardware manufacturer that its systems had been hacked, and that customer data...