Headline-making news in information security, cyber security, privacy, and AI, from 2010 to today.
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.
CISA confirms attacks on over 100 internet-exposed US water and wastewater systems in July 2026, which US officials believe were likely Iranian.
ShinyHunters claims a breach of Instructure’s Canvas platform, affecting nearly 9,000 schools and universities, then defaces login pages during exams.
Anthropic says its Claude Mythos Preview model can find serious software flaws at scale and gives access only to selected defenders through Project Glasswing.
Companies House takes its WebFiling service offline after a flaw let logged-in users view, and potentially change, other companies’ records.
A pro-Iran group claims a destructive attack on Stryker that wiped tens of thousands of company devices and disrupted operations worldwide.