FBI Chief Kash Patel’s Clothing
Hackers compromised FBI Chief Kash Patel’s clothing store in a ClickFix attack that tricked macOS users into installing infostealer malware.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
310,431 records exposed — Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers and 2 more
Jung Da-hyun reports: A recent data breach at the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), exposing sensitive personal records of adoptees, is drawing criticism from overseas adoptee groups and raising questio
The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) today released evidence of a zero-day exploit developed by a cybercriminal group with the help of AI. It marks the first time the security research group has identified what it
Incident responders from cybersecurity firm Rapid7 published a report about a recent intrusion that initially appeared to be a Chaos ransomware attack but was later discovered to be an attack attributed to MuddyWater, an
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has unveiled a new national initiative aimed at helping critical infrastructure operators withstand and recover from major cyberattacks by preparing to opera
The UK cyber agency NCSC warns AI is speeding up vulnerability discovery, likely causing a “patch wave” of urgent software updates to fix exposed flaws. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI is rap
1,837,078 records exposed — Email addresses, Employers, Job titles, Names and 2 more
Tyler Bridegan, Scott Hyman, Patrick Strubbe, and Sarah Wilk of Womble Bond Dickinson write: In a first of its kind, a California federal judge allowed claims against Bain Capital to proceed based on a data breach at its
French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of selling data stolen in a cyberattack on France Titres (ANTS), the country's agency for issuing and managing administrative documents. [...]
France has arrested numerous young hackers in the past decade. You’d think — or hope — that they might have developed an effective diversion program by now. Have they? That’s not to imply that oth
The minor was taken into police custody on April 25 on suspicion of involvement in a data breach affecting the National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS), which processes applications for passports, national identity ca
The Ukrainian police have arrested three individuals who hacked more than 610,000 Roblox gaming accounts and sold them for a profit of $225,000. [...]