Federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, and public-sector contractors have become priority targets for nation-state actors and ransomware groups. Below is every government-sector breach LeakTrace has indexed.
Researchers exposed the Silent Ransom Group ‘s Fast Flux infrastructure as the FBI warns of ongoing attacks targeting U.S. law firms and businesses. Resecurity uncovered the Silent Ransom Group (SRG)’s Fast F
CISA, the FBI, the NSA, the Department of Energy, and other US government partners are warning that hackers are targeting internet-exposed automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems used to monitor fuel and liquid storage tanks
Jacob Goldberg and Irwin Loy report: A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Gaza, the UN’s food agency has confirmed, in what
In a statement, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had uncovered what it described as a "large-scale operation" involving malicious software installed on the mobile devices of senior Russian officials.
Noelle Crombie reports on today’s reminder of the insider threat: A former Snake River Correctional Institution employee accessed tens of thousands of Oregon Department of Corrections files over a six-month period
A third-party UK visa site exposed passports and selfies on a public AWS server. It’s not official GOV.UK and affected at least 100,000 documents. UK Visa Portal is not run by the British government. It’s a third-p
4,851,517 records exposed — Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers and 1 more
India’s cybersecurity agency, CERT-In, has urged organizations to patch, mitigate, or isolate known exploited vulnerabilities affecting internet-facing “crown jewel” systems within 12 hours where feasible, warning that A
The FBI warned that the extortion gang Silent Ransom Group is targeting law firms and socially engineering its way into servers and databases.
A purported leak exposing 5.8 million records of Uruguayan citizens is the latest incident where cybercriminals targeted government agencies to monetize citizen data.
In a public advisory issued Tuesday the FBI said a hacking group has targeted law firms using social engineering schemes to gain remote access to corporate systems and exfiltrate data.
The FBI warned on Tuesday that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) extortion gang is now targeting U.S.-based law firms in in-person data theft attacks. [...]
Hackers compromised FBI Chief Kash Patel’s clothing store in a ClickFix attack that tricked macOS users into installing infostealer malware.
185,256 records exposed — Dates of birth, Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers and 1 more
Jordan Ercit reports: Jacob Butler, 23, who was arrested Wednesday by OPP, also facing aiding and abetting computer intrusion charge in Alaska A 23-year-old Ottawa man is facing extradition to the United States after bei
Vietnamnet Global reports: Speaking at the Vietnam Security Summit 2026 on May 22, Lieutenant Colonel Tran Trung Hieu, Deputy Director of the National Cybersecurity Center and Director of VNCERT under the Ministry of Pub
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published
Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: State breach-notification laws continue to evolve, and legislatures are using 2026 sessions to tighten consumer protections and shift the civil liability landscape that often fol
Police seized First VPN in a global crackdown, exposed its cybercrime users, and shut down infrastructure tied to ransomware and data theft. A major international law enforcement operation has taken First VPN offline, a
Claim Depot reports: Extant Aerospace, a defense and space electronics company based in Melbourne, Florida, disclosed a data breach that affected 3,012 individuals in the United States. The company, legally known as Syme
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts a
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Nvidia cloud gaming data breach, Android 17 security upgrades, FBI warning after ShinyHunters hacks Canvas. The post In Other News: Big Tech vs Canada Enc
In August 2025, research agency Bevolkingsonderzoek Nederland revealed that half a million women who had undergone cervical cancer screening had their data stolen. The research agency paid Nova ransomware gang’s de
The Committee on Homeland Security has requested to be briefed on the incident and Instructure’s remediation steps. The post Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach appeared first on Secu