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Mon 12 Oct1
AU
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David Hollingsworth reports: The operator of a global suite of cancer care providers has confirmed that patient data has been affected by a data breach involving Australia’s largest cancer care provider, the Icon Cancer Centre. “Icon Oncology Group is managing a data breach incident involving unauthorised access to some patient information held on a supplier’s... Source
Fri 9 Oct1
JP
The Asahi Shimbun reports: IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage affecting 495 corporate and local government customers. The Tokyo-based company said it is still investigating the scale of the damage and whether any personal information was compromised. The cyberattack has... Source
Thu 8 Oct1
KR
The Coupang breach in South Korea has stayed in the news cycle for nine months and may offer a useful case study in how not to respond to an incident. In December 2025, South Korea’s largest online retailer, Coupang, apologized for a November breach affecting more than 33 million customers. A former developer who worked... Source
Tue 6 Oct1
JP
JiJi reports: Japanese police have captured a Russian national believed to be a key member of the “Qilin” international hacker group and extradited him to Germany, investigative sources said Tuesday. Qilin is believed to have carried out ransomware attacks against companies worldwide, causing major damage through data encryption. In 2025, the group claimed responsibility online... Source
Mon 5 Oct2
JP
Takashi Nakamichi and Ryo Horiuchi report that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s second-largest brokerage and investment banking firm, is responding to a breach at one of its vendors. Daiwa Securities Group said information on as many as 110,000 clients may have been stolen after the servers of an external vendor were hacked. Japan’s second-largest brokerage received a... Source
KR
Lee Hyo-jin reports: President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday ordered a thorough investigation into a string of recent data breaches at financial institutions, as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cyberattacks increasingly target them. According to Cheong Wa Dae, Lee was briefed on recent data breaches at financial and public institutions and their responses to the incidents. “The... Source
Fri 25 Sept1
AU
Roxanne Libatique writes: An OpenAI agent accessed Australian government health data in June 2026. The government was not told until September. That gap – nearly three months between breach and disclosure – is not just a political problem. It is a cyber insurance problem, and one that brokers with public sector and health sector clients... Source
Sat 19 Sept1
SG
The mistaken cc: breach still happens. Ann Neo reports: An invitation to an event sent by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) has sparked privacy concerns after a mailing list exposed the identities, contact details and, in some instances, workplaces of individuals with a genetic cancer condition. The e-mail, an invitation to a Living with... Source
Fri 18 Sept1
KR
Choi Won-woo reports: Internal data amounting to 1,894 cases from the Korean-type heavy ion accelerator ‘Raon,’ built with a state budget of 1.5 trillion Korean won [USD $1,080,038,017.50 at today’s rates] was confirmed to have been leaked externally. The estimated time of the leak is 2022, and the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Heavy Ion... Source
Wed 16 Sept1
Payroll system of mosques, madrasahs hit by ransomware; staff details potentially compromised
27d agoSG
David Sun reports: The payroll system of mosques and madrasahs overseen by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) has been hacked and held for ransom, The Straits Times has learnt. The SmartHRMS human resources (HR) system is supplied by Singapore-based software vendor Avelogic. The latest cybersecurity incident notice on Avelogic’s website, which was last... Source
Sun 13 Sept1
KR
Shin Da-eun and Park Kang-su report: Korea was not the only country where victims who sent Google removal requests about illegally obtained sexual images ended up having their private information posted online, the Hankyoreh has confirmed. “Photos of me from when I was a minor were distributed without my consent. They were posted on an... Source
Fri 11 Sept1
JP
JiJi Press reports: Japan’s Digital Agency said Friday that about 246,000 sets of personal information, including the names and email addresses of government employees, may have been compromised through the unauthorized access of a network system operated by the agency. So far, no secondary damage such as the misuse of the possibly breached personal information... Source
Thu 10 Sept1
KR
Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Korea’s privacy regulator is sharply raising the cost of data breaches, aiming to push companies to treat data protection as a preventive investment rather than a routine cost of doing business. Starting Friday, companies found to have leaked the personal data of 10 million or more people through intent or gross negligence... Source
Wed 9 Sept1
SG
WASHINGTON – Malone Lam, 22, a citizen of Singapore and recent resident of Miami, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. in connection with his role as ringleader of an international cybercrime conspiracy that used social engineering to steal and launder cryptocurrency valued at more than $245 million, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine... Source
Mon 7 Sept2
KR
kbizoom reports: Weverse, the fan platform operated by HYBE-affiliated Weverse Company, has confirmed a security incident that affected 422,584 user accounts. The company said the exposed information consisted mainly of internal identifiers that cannot be used outside the platform. “We received a notification from the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) on September 3 that... Source
AU
Ashish Khaitan reports: The Mathspace data breach has affected 1,079,819 people in Australia and New Zealand after unauthorized parties accessed an internal reporting system and downloaded user information. Mathspace confirmed the security incident on September 3, 2026, and said the affected records involve students, parents or guardians, teachers, and Mathspace staff. The company said names,... Source
Sat 29 Aug1
CN
AJ Vicens and Raphael Satter report: U.S. officials are backpedaling on claims that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese spies, now saying that the organizations were among the hackers’ targets. In a freshly edited statement, the Justice Department said Friday that the U.S. Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA, and others were “among the targets... Source
Thu 27 Aug1
AU
Brian Krebs reports: Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement released today, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said two men from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, were arrested in connection... Source
Wed 26 Aug1
CN
Jonathan Greig reports; Chinese government hackers used tools known as “QScan” and “QTRouter” to breach multiple federal agencies since 2018, the Department of Justice said in announcing the takedown of the platforms on Wednesday. The tools were run by China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company and used primarily by China’s Ministry of State Security and... Source
Tue 25 Aug1
KR
This is one of those headlines where our first thought was “Uh oh!” but then we read more and thought “Hmmm…” Ko Jae-woo reports: Seoul National University Hospital has not filed a mandatory cybersecurity disclosure for years, an investigation has found. While tertiary hospitals are generally required to submit such disclosures, the hospital is exempt... Source