Current security news from curated sources
Aggregated from BSI Bürger-CERT, BSI WID, SANS NewsBites, Krebs on Security, The Hacker News and the Allianz für Cyber-Sicherheit.
- Breachpwn.watch
Ingram Micro SafePay ransomware takes down ordering systems for a week
SafePay ransomware hit IT distributor Ingram Micro around July 3, 2025, taking down its website, ordering systems, the Xvantage platform and Impulse licensing. Ingram Micro took systems offline and restored order processing globally by July 9-10.
- Breachpwn.watch
Qantas: 5.7M customers' data stolen from a contact-centre platform
A cyber criminal accessed a third-party customer-service platform used by a Qantas contact centre. After deduplication, 5.7M unique customers were affected: names, emails, frequent-flyer details, and for some phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, gender and meal preferences. No passwords, PINs, card or passport data were taken.
- Breachpwn.watch
Vishing campaign steals Salesforce data from Google and others (UNC6040 / ShinyHunters)
UNC6040 phoned employees posing as IT support and talked them into authorizing a modified Salesforce Data Loader app, then bulk-exported their Salesforce data. Google's own corporate Salesforce instance (prospective Ads customer contacts) was hit in June 2025. Extortion followed under the ShinyHunters name (UNC6240).
- Breachpwn.watch
Coinbase: bribed support contractors leak data of 69,461 customers, $20M ransom refused
Criminals bribed overseas support staff to pull customer data (names, contact details, partial financial data, ID images, balances and transactions), then demanded $20M. Coinbase refused, offered a matching bounty, and estimated $180M to $400M in costs. No passwords, private keys or funds were accessed directly.
- Breachpwn.watch
Marks & Spencer ransomware (Scattered Spider / DragonForce) halts online orders for 46 days
Scattered Spider got in through social engineering of a third-party IT provider and encrypted M&S's VMware ESXi hosts with DragonForce ransomware over Easter 2025. Contactless payments, Click & Collect and online ordering broke; online orders were paused from April 25 to June 10. M&S put the hit at about £300M of operating profit.
- Breachpwn.watch
Oracle Cloud login servers breached: ~6M SSO/LDAP records offered for sale
A hacker using the name rose87168 claimed in March 2025 to have stolen about 6 million SSO and LDAP records from Oracle Cloud login servers. Oracle first denied an OCI breach, then told customers privately that two obsolete servers (reportedly Oracle Cloud Classic / Gen 1) were accessed, exposing usernames and hashed or encrypted passwords.
- Breachpwn.watch
Bybit loses ~$1.5B in ETH after Safe{Wallet} frontend is trojanized (North Korea)
North Korean TraderTraitor/Lazarus hackers compromised a Safe{Wallet} developer's Mac, took over AWS session tokens and injected JavaScript into Safe's S3-hosted frontend. Bybit's signers approved what looked like a routine transfer but was a malicious transaction. It is the largest crypto theft on record; the FBI attributed it to North Korea.
- Breachpwn.watch
DeepSeek leaves ClickHouse database open: chat logs and API keys exposed
Wiz found two DeepSeek ClickHouse instances open to the internet without authentication. Its query interface allowed arbitrary SQL and exposed a log_stream table with over a million entries, including plaintext chat history, API keys and backend details. DeepSeek locked it down within an hour of being told.
- Breachpwn.watch
Salt Typhoon: Chinese state hackers inside US telecom networks
PRC-affiliated actors (publicly called Salt Typhoon) compromised networks at multiple US telecommunications companies. The FBI and CISA said they stole customer call records, got into the private communications of a limited number of people mainly involved in government or political activity, and copied information subject to US law enforcement wiretap requests. Allied agencies then published hardening guidance for communications infrastructure.
- Breachpwn.watch
Internet Archive hacked: 31 million user records stolen
Attackers defaced archive.org with a JavaScript alert and stole a 6.4GB user authentication database: 31 million unique email addresses, screen names and bcrypt-hashed passwords. The newest record was from 2024-09-28. The data was shared with Have I Been Pwned. Around the same time the site was knocked offline by DDoS attacks.
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National Public Data breach: 2.7 billion records with SSNs leaked
Data stolen from background-check broker National Public Data, nearly 2.7 billion plaintext records with names, mailing addresses and Social Security numbers of people in the US, was leaked for free on a hacking forum. It had first been offered for sale in April 2024 by an actor called USDoD.
- Breachpwn.watch
CrowdStrike Falcon update crashes 8.5 million Windows machines
A faulty CrowdStrike Falcon sensor configuration update (Channel File 291) caused a logic error that blue-screened Windows hosts running sensor 7.11 and later that were online between 04:09 and 05:27 UTC on 2024-07-19. Microsoft estimated 8.5 million Windows devices were affected CrowdStrike stressed it was not a cyberattack; it is tracked here because a security agent with kernel-level access took down machines worldwide.
- Breachpwn.watch
Hugging Face Spaces secrets accessed without authorization
Hugging Face detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform, specifically Spaces secrets, and suspected a subset had been read. It revoked affected HF tokens, emailed impacted users, removed org tokens, moved Spaces secrets to a KMS, and told users to rotate keys and switch to fine-grained tokens.
- Breachpwn.watch
Dropbox Sign (HelloSign) production environment breached
A threat actor got into the Dropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign) production environment through a compromised service account in an automated system-configuration tool. It accessed customer emails, usernames, phone numbers, hashed passwords, API keys, OAuth tokens and MFA data. Dropbox reset passwords, logged users out and coordinated rotation of all API keys and OAuth tokens. It found no access to documents or payment information.
- Breachpwn.watch
Snowflake customer accounts raided with infostealer credentials (Ticketmaster, AT&T and others)
A financially motivated group Mandiant tracks as UNC5537 logged into Snowflake customer accounts using credentials stolen by infostealer malware, some dating back to 2020, on accounts without MFA or network allow lists. It then stole data and extorted the victims. Mandiant and Snowflake notified about 165 potentially exposed organizations. Victims included Ticketmaster/Live Nation and AT&T, which said call and text records of nearly all its cellular customers were taken. Mandiant found no breach of Snowflake's own enterprise environment.
- Breachpwn.watch
Change Healthcare ransomware attack (ALPHV/BlackCat)
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang got into UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare on 2024-02-12 using stolen credentials for a Citrix remote-access portal without multi-factor authentication, then deployed ransomware on 2024-02-21. Claims processing and pharmacy payments across the US health system were disrupted for weeks. By October 2024 Change Healthcare had sent about 100 million notices to individuals (later estimates were about 190 million people).
- Breachpwn.watch
Cloudflare 'Thanksgiving 2023' intrusion with tokens left over from the Okta breach
A suspected nation-state attacker used one access token and three service account credentials stolen in the October Okta breach, which Cloudflare had failed to rotate, to get into Cloudflare's Atlassian Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket. Cloudflare said customer data and systems were not affected.
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Xfinity breach via Citrix Bleed: 35.9M customers
Comcast's Xfinity said attackers used Citrix Bleed (CVE-2023-4966) on its NetScaler devices between Oct 16 and 19, 2023, before mitigation, and took usernames and hashed passwords. Some customers also lost names, contact details, last four SSN digits, birth dates and security questions. A Maine filing put the count at 35,879,455.
- Breachpwn.watch
23andMe: credential stuffing exposes 6.9M users' ancestry data
Attackers used reused passwords to log into about 14,000 23andMe accounts, then scraped the DNA Relatives profiles those accounts could see. Data on about 6.9 million people was exposed and sold on hacking forums.
- Breachpwn.watch
Okta support system breach: HAR files with session tokens stolen
An attacker used a stolen service account to get into Okta's customer support system and download files from 134 customers. Some were HAR files with live session tokens, which were used to hijack the Okta sessions of 5 customers, including BeyondTrust, Cloudflare and 1Password. Okta later found the attacker also downloaded the names and emails of all support system users.