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On Wednesday, a decades-old open-to two vulnerabilities that had sat dormant for years until researchers recently figured out a way to exploit them

Refrigeration systems at more than 150 French supermarket locations were compromised overnight Oct. 11–12, 2026, according to early sector reporting. Some equipment reportedly reached temperatures of approximately 50°C, and stores discarded fresh and frozen stock the following morning Le Parisien, and Libération

The U.S. government is reportedly alerting millions of current and former U.S. military service members and staff that their personal information was stolen during a months-long breach of the Pentagon’s personnel records, the latest in a spate of thefts involving federal workers’ data in recent months.

The FBI and Dutch law enforcement say they have arrested a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which the agencies say are responsible for hacks on over 140 organizations around the world. The hackers also claimed responsibility for a breach of the FBI’s own systems earlier this month.

Apple has fixed a security vulnerability in its iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 operating systems that the company says “may have been exploited” by hackers. The tech giant said the now-fixed bug could be used to launch “an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27.”

Technology giant Kiteworks is urging customers to shut down their systems after the company received information that hackers may attempt to target them.

North Korean hackers are suspected of stealing more than $351 million from the servers of cryptocurrency exchange Bitget during a cyberattack on Thursday.

An OpenAI model hacked into an Australian government website, the country’s prime minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday, in the first publicly reported case of an AI model hacking into a government’s systems. 

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen data on thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the claim on their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stolen “sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and individuals who…

The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files from a Florida state database of vehicles and driver information. The hackers said they published the stolen data on its leak site “because the victim did not pay a ransom or cooperate and comply” with the hackers’ demands.