APT73 Claims 50GB Hargreaves Lansdown Breach — UK's Largest Investment Platform Denies It
The ransomware group APT73, also known as Bashe, listed Hargreaves Lansdown on its dark web leak site on April 27, 2026, claiming to have stolen 50GB ...
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Therapy Sessions for Sale: How Mental Health Records Became Ransomware's Most Valuable Loot
Aroostook Mental Health Services on Qilin's leak site March 24, 2026. North Texas Behavioral Health Authority — 285,000 patients exposed in an October...
Bouquet Unmasked: Chicago Teen Peter Stokes Charged as Scattered Spider Member After Finland Airport Arrest
Federal prosecutors unsealed charges today against Peter Stokes, 19, a dual US-Estonian citizen operating as 'Bouquet' inside the Scattered Spider cyb...
China's Pandemic Spy: Silk Typhoon Hacker Xu Zewei Extradited to US After Stealing COVID-19 Vaccine Research
Xu Zewei, 34, a Chinese national and alleged contract hacker for China's Ministry of State Security, appeared in federal court in Houston on April 27,...
Mythos Inside: How a Discord Group Walked Into Anthropic's 'Too Dangerous to Release' Model Through Mercor's Backdoor
Anthropic locked Mythos behind a 12-partner coalition and called it too dangerous for public release. Within days of launch, a Discord group was using...
Your Passport Was in There: Eurail's December Breach Exposed 308,000 Travelers' IDs, IBANs, and Health Data
Eurail B.V., the Dutch company behind the rail pass used by millions of tourists crossing Europe, confirmed a December 2025 breach that exposed passpo...
Canada's First SMS Blaster Arrests: Three Men Who Knocked Out 911 Access for Thousands of Phones
Toronto police arrested three men in what prosecutors describe as Canada's first criminal case involving mobile SMS blasters — rogue cell tower device...
The Negotiator Was Working for the Other Side: Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Secretly Aiding BlackCat Ransomware
Angelo Martino, 41, a Florida man who worked as a ransomware negotiator, pleaded guilty on April 21, 2026 to conspiracy to commit extortion. He secret...
Twenty Years Old, One Hundred Breaches: France Arrests HexDex After Ministry of Education and Weapons Registry Hacks
French authorities arrested a 20-year-old known online as HexDex on April 22, 2026, on suspicion of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since l...
Five API Calls From a Free Account: How Lovable Exposed Every Project Built Before November 2025
On April 20, 2026, a security researcher demonstrated that any authenticated Lovable user could access another user's source code, database credential...
A Roblox Cheat, a Forgotten OAuth Grant, and the Keys to Vercel's Production Infrastructure
Over the weekend of April 19–20, 2026, Vercel confirmed a security breach tracing back to a Lumma Stealer infection on a Context.ai employee's machine...
He Hacked the US Supreme Court Dozens of Times, Bragged on Instagram, and Got Probation
Nicholas Moore, a 24-year-old from Springfield, Tennessee, was sentenced on April 17, 2026 to one year of probation after pleading guilty to repeatedl...