Chris Pugh reports: The FBI says North Korean hackers are behind the biggest cryptocurrency theft ever recorded. Thieves took about $6.3 billion in bitcoin and other digital money Thursday from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. Crypto exchanges are websites where people buy and sell digital currency. On Saturday, the FBI said a North Korean…
Extent of Crime Stoppers data breach unknown: Sault Police chief
James Hopkin reports: The Sault’s police chief says it’s currently unclear how many anonymous tips received by Crime Stoppers locally were potentially exposed in a massive data breach. Both the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service and the Anishinabek Police Service have paused their relationship with the local Crime Stoppers chapter — causing the organization to…
UNM Health addresses cyberattack in New Mexico after ransomware group claims responsibility
John Rupolo reports: University of New Mexico Health is addressing concerns after a cyberattack on Monday, with reports surfacing this week that a ransomware group claimed responsibility for the incident. “So what I can say is we’re also aware of those claims by that group,” said Chris Ramirez, communications director for UNMH. The community’s top…
Florida education department says data breach may affect 4.9 million people
Eric Weiss reports: The Florida Department of Education says a breach of its student financial aid website may have exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to approximately 4.9 million people. The department said staff learned of unauthorized criminal access to the Florida Student Financial Aid website on Oct. 19. It activated cybersecurity response…
A RIZAP Employee Uploaded 726 People’s Health Records to a Personal AI Chat
Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of…
Australia severs criminal access to 180,000 computers after breaching Amadey malware backend
Lukas Brandt writes: Criminals using the Amadey malware lost control of about 180,000 infected computers after operators from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) gained access to the operation’s backend and severed the connection between the controllers and the victims. “The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those victims,”…