Denmark CPR Data Breach: 8.8 Million Records

Denmark CPR data breach: 8.8 million records pulled through one company's lawful registry access. An oversized invoice exposed it after ten days.

The Denmark CPR data breach exposed the names, addresses and personal ID numbers of about 8.8 million people, roughly four in five records in the country’s Central Person Register. Unauthorized parties reached it through a smaller company’s lawful lookup access, ran more than 14 million queries over about ten days in September, and were noticed…

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EU Cybersecurity Incident Response Gaps Exposed

EU Cybersecurity Incident Response Gaps Exposed

A new European Court of Auditors report finds serious EU cybersecurity incident response gaps at the very top of the escalation ladder: no EU member state has ever formally classified a cyber incident as “large-scale,” the tier that triggers cross-border EU crisis coordination, since that classification system existed from 2016. Not WannaCry. Not NotPetya. Not…

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TerminalFix ClickFix Attack Campaign Hits Germany

A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign compromised a German state institution, BSI confirms — heise links it to Berlin's Rhysida actor cluster.

A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign has compromised a German state institution’s network, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) confirmed on September 4. TerminalFix is an evolution of the ClickFix social-engineering technique: a fake CAPTCHA tricks a user into pasting a command, but instead of the old single-machine Run-dialog trick, it opens Windows Terminal and…

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Boston Scientific Cyberattack Halts Global Shipments

Boston Scientific Cyberattack Halts Global Shipments

A Boston Scientific cyberattack detected on August 25 has caused what the company itself calls a “global disruption” — halting order processing and shipping for one of the world’s largest manufacturers of pacemakers, defibrillators, stents and other implantable medical devices, with no confirmed restoration timeline more than a week later. What Happened The Boston Scientific…

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