Over the weekend, an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency under Elon Musk’s purview, inadvertently exposed a confidential key that granted direct access to over 50 of xAI’s language models....
One of the world’s largest steel manufacturing conglomerates, the Japanese company Nippon Steel, has reported a large-scale cyberattack during which hackers gained unauthorized access to data belonging to clients, employees, and business partners. The...
McDonald’s hiring system was found to be secured by a password so trivial that even a child might guess it—”123456.” Two elementary vulnerabilities granted access to the personal data of over 64 million job...
ChatGPT has once again proven susceptible to unconventional manipulation—this time, the model divulged valid Windows product keys, including one registered to the major financial institution Wells Fargo. The vulnerability was exposed through a peculiar...
As a result of a data breach caused by TalentHook, tens of millions of job seekers’ resumes were left openly accessible online. The incident was first reported by the Cybernews team, which discovered a...
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Android spyware app known as Catwatchful, resulting in a significant data breach that compromised the personal information of thousands of users—including the administrator of the service...
Australian airline Qantas has suffered a significant cybersecurity incident after malicious actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data, the company announced on Monday evening. Qantas, the nation’s largest carrier—operating both domestic...
The largest reseller of Apple products in Northern Europe—Humac—has fallen victim to a cyberattack, a fact revealed following the publication of company data on the dark web portal operated by the Kraken group. The...
A British citizen has been formally charged in the United States for orchestrating large-scale cyberattacks and trafficking in stolen confidential data, resulting in an estimated $25 million in damages. According to the U.S. Attorney’s...
The announcement of the so-called “mother of all breaches” sent shockwaves through the media: headlines blared dire warnings, while the tone of coverage bordered on panic. Yet the actual substance of the event is...
On April 6, 2025, security researcher Bob Diachenko, in collaboration with analysts from the Cybernews team, discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch server belonging to Openprovider. This incident resulted in the inadvertent exposure of critically sensitive...
Many owners of Smart TV operating systems increasingly find themselves at the heart of a growing conflict—one that pits the preservation of viewer privacy against mounting pressure from the advertising industry. The crux of...
A recent leak of thousands of pages of internal Google documents has revealed the true workings of the company’s search algorithm. These documents, which have come into the hands of SEO experts, raise questions...
A massive data breach in India has exposed the biometric data of millions of citizens. An unsecured database containing fingerprints and facial scans of police, military personnel, and civilians was discovered during the general...
OmniVision, a renowned manufacturer of image sensors utilized in numerous smartphone cameras worldwide, has announced a data security breach following a ransomware attack. The company’s headquarters are located in California, and in 2023, it...
A major healthcare provider in Mississippi, Singing River, recently disclosed that a cyberattack in August 2023 affected the data of 895,204 individuals. The medical network comprises hospitals in Pascagoula, Ocean Springs, and Gulfport, as...
