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Leaked: Nintendo Employee Files After $2M Demand
Shadowbyt3$ leaked Nintendo employee W-9s and bank statements after the company refused a $2M ransom demand routed through a WebMD subsidiary.
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FTC Orders Aurobindo to Shed 4 Drugs in $250M Lannett Deal
FTC's proposed consent order forces Aurobindo to sell four generics to rival Quagen Pharmaceuticals before its $250M Lannett acquisition can close.
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Repurposes EU IP Addresses: Google Targets August 3
Google's August 3 deadline brings IP-based ad personalization into GDPR territory, and the ICO's May advice means advertisers carry the risk.
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Hit 49 Times: Fortinet FortiSandbox Before CISA Acts
49 exploitation events, 13 sources across nine countries, and Fortinet's three FortiSandbox flaws still aren't on CISA's KEV catalog.
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Vermont Signed 23rd State Privacy Law After Prior Veto
Vermont signed its 23rd-state privacy law, but the enforcement clause has a built-in PRA threat if the attorney general goes underfunded.
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Cracked: 73,000 Fortinet Firewalls Hit by Russian Group
FortiBleed exposed credentials for 73,932 Fortinet firewalls across 194 countries, covering roughly half of all internet-accessible FortiGate devices.
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UK Bans TikTok, Instagram for Under-16s in 2027
Keir Starmer orders six platforms including TikTok and YouTube to block all under-16s by spring 2027, with AI chatbot age gates on top.
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Breached REDCap: China's UNC6508 Lurked 26 Months
A compliance rule named "Patroit" silently forwarded research emails to a Gmail account for months. The typos suggest manual upkeep.
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Jailed 21 Months for Sabotaging Iowa School District
An Iowa IT worker kept Saydel School District's credentials after quitting, then spent 21 months deleting accounts and disrupting classrooms.
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FBI Seizes Outsider Enterprise in $1.9B AI Phishing Op
The FBI, Google, and Black Lotus Labs dismantled a China-based phishing ring with 9,000 fake sites and $1.9B in estimated consumer losses.
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Stole $1.9B via AI, Outsider Enterprise Hit With RICO Suit
Google's own Gemini was the weapon of choice for a China-based phishing ring that caused $1.9B in losses. Now Google is the plaintiff.
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FBI Dismantles $1.9B Outsider Phishing Network
For $88 a week, Outsider gave cybercriminals a full phishing kit. The FBI and Google just shut it down after $1.9 billion in losses.
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ShinyHunters Extorts 100+ Orgs via Oracle Zero-Day
Oracle's PeopleSoft had no patch for two weeks while ShinyHunters breached 100+ organizations, with 454,600 student records already leaked.
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Conti Coder Pleads Guilty, Faces 20 Years
A Conti loader-coder pleads guilty to wire fraud, nearly three years after arrest in Ireland, and faces 20 years in prison.
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Filed: Kyushu Electric's Missing Drive Holds 10.9M Records
Kyushu Electric's grid subsidiary lost a drive holding 10.9M customer records to a suspected theft, with METI demanding a full report by July 8.
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Breached: Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day Hits 100 Orgs
Oracle's PeopleSoft zero-day hit 100+ organizations, 68% of them universities, with student finance records now on a hacking group's leak site.
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Coupang Fined $412M for Breach Hitting 34M Accounts
A former employee silently accessed 34 million accounts while Coupang grew. The $412M Korean fine that just landed is only the start of the bill.
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Seized: AudiA6 Washed $380M for Ransomware Gangs
AudiA6 laundered $380M for ransomware gangs across three years. A Poland arrest unraveled a network that 11 countries couldn't crack alone.
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DOJ Charges Russian in Void Blizzard Hack of 11 U.S. Firms
Denis Obrezko charged for buying Void Blizzard's attack infrastructure; the FBI confirmed 11 U.S. company breaches, likely a fraction of the total.
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FTC Halts NAA Mortgage Scam Built on CARES Act Lies
FTC's restraining order against National Amendment Assistance exposes how CARES Act branding still lures distressed homeowners into foreclosure.
