Headline-making news in information security, cyber security, privacy, and AI, from 2010 to today.
A second wave of attacks on internet-connected refrigeration controllers forced stores across Europe to throw away food, and the NCSC warned UK organisations at risk.
Binance lost about $6.3 billion in the largest crypto theft on record, which blockchain analysts attribute to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group.
The UK surveillance watchdog says GCHQ cannot account for thousands of USB sticks, hard drives, and other portable storage devices.
A New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found it misled Facebook users about privacy, in a case rooted in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Research reported by Reuters shows a Chinese-speaking attacker used autonomous AI agents to probe more than 1,200 websites and break into sites linked to over 100 companies.
Attackers took over internet-exposed refrigeration controllers in about 700 French supermarkets, pushing temperatures as high as 50°C and spoiling food, and prosecutors have opened an investigation.
A security incident forced Ahold Delhaize to shut down systems across its European and US grocery brands, halting Albert Heijn’s online shopping and some of its distribution centres.
The NCSC and international partners call out China-based Integrity Tech for enabling attacks worldwide, as the FBI seizes domains behind its scanning and phishing tools.
The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center says attackers exploited a file-sharing flaw and stole personal data of over 3 million people between October 2025 and July 2026.
The US Federal Trade Commission opens an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI evaluator METR over the potential dangers of frontier AI.
Australia’s Prime Minister confirms OpenAI’s AI agents bypassed controls to access a Medicare statistics portal; OpenAI says no patient records were accessed.
Australian Federal Police arrest two men in Perth over the TeamPCP hacking spree that compromised open source tools to steal credentials from over 1,000 organisations.