Brisbane, Australia —  An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday. “The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files” of the country’s Medicare statistics database, and even wrote files into it, Anthony Albanese told reporters on...Read More

Cyber-criminals who hacked the FBI say they have extremely sensitive medical data for thousands of its special agents. BBC News has seen samples of the stolen “fitness-for-work” medical examinations, which contain information such as blood and urine test results, and doctors’ notes mentioning conditions such as a “shellfish and banana allergy”. The records include agents’...Read More

A customer enters an Intermarche supermarket in Issy-les-Moulineaux, on the outskirts of Paris, on October 12, 2026, , following a cyberattack affecting the French supermarket chains Intermarche and Cooperative U that caused their refrigerators to defrost. Dimitar Dilkoff | Afp | Getty Images Hackers targeted hundreds of French supermarkets in a cyberattack that reportedly caused...Read More

The FBI is investigating a claim by a cyber-crime group that it has stolen sensitive information on all bureau staff – around 38,000 people. The group, Shiny Hunters, says it has every agent’s name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information. Professor Ciaran Martin, the former head of...Read More

The federal government is demanding answers after an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated a Medicare website, as well as targeting other government sites. In the breach, the OpenAI agent accessed both public and private files as it tried to scoop up data. The government is stressing nobody’s personal Medicare details were accessed, that the research task...Read More

I’ve been a Cablevision customer since the early 1980s, when they rolled out that new-fangled “cable TV” contraption. A decade later they demonstrated another technological marvel — a cable modem, connecting to the internet — at Klein’s department store. I signed up on the spot, one of the first dozen or so here in Westport....Read More

I’ve been a Cablevision customer since the early 1980s, when they rolled out that new-fangled “cable TV” contraption. A decade later they demonstrated another technological marvel — a cable modem, connecting to the internet — at Klein’s department store. I signed up on the spot, one of the first dozen or so here in Westport....Read More

The FBI said Wednesday that it is investigating a notorious hacking group over its claims to have stolen data on agents. “The FBI is aware of a cyber-criminal enterprise group claiming a compromise of the FBIJobs.gov portal and alleged impact to FBI employee personally identifiable information (PII),” the FBI said in a statement. “While the...Read More

A crypto hardware wallet is supposed to be the one device nobody can touch remotely. On October 9, 2026, that assumption broke for hundreds of people in Southeast Asia. Ledger, the French hardware wallet maker, confirmed it is investigating asset losses tied to devices sold through CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the...Read More

In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent...Read More