Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance ...
MIT Technology Review

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

Gong and other scholars have been issuing warnings about the security vulnerabilities of AI agents for a while. They publish ...
Graham Cluley

Smashing Security podcast #470: This AI security flaw might be impossible to fix

A website called “UK visa portal” has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels.

Hackers hijack thousands of sites for ClickFix and FakeUpdate attacks

A threat actor tracked as DriveSurge has been operating large-scale malware distribution campaigns using ClickFix and ...
Decrypt

What Is an AI Prompt Injection Attack? The Hidden Threat Hijacking Your Chatbots

Hackers can hijack ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with nothing but a sentence. OpenAI says the problem may never be fully solved.
Tech Times

Ghost CMS SQL Injection Hits 700 Sites: Harvard, DuckDuckGo Serve Fake Cloudflare Malware

Ghost CMS SQL injection campaign has compromised 700+ websites — including Harvard University, Oxford University, and DuckDuckGo — using a CVSS 9.4 flaw to inject ClickFix malware lures that trick ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Canvas Hack Confirmed Some Professors’ Fears. It Likely Won’t Change Anything.

When Miriam Posner walked into her digital humanities class at the University of California at Los Angeles on Tuesday, her students were already primed. Their reading for the day happened to be about ...
The Verge

Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI

Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may have been created using AI, like a ‘hallucinated’ CVSS score. Google researchers found evidence in the exploit’s code that it may ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Canvas back up after ShinyHunters hack forced shutdown

This story has been updated with comments from the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Public Schools. Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and ...
KTLA

McDonald’s customers are using this hack to recreate In-N-Out’s Animal Style burger

Fast food fans may have found a way to satisfy their In-N-Out cravings without stepping foot inside the beloved California burger chain. According to a recent article from Food Republic, McDonald’s ...
American Banker

Customers sue Chime over alleged Iran-linked hack

Chris Britt, co-founder and chief executive officer of Chime Financial, during the company's initial public offering in June 2025 On April 1, when Chime Financial's mobile app went down for hours, the ...
Inc

Inside OpenAI, This Productivity Hack Is Giving Workers Their Own Chief of Staff. You Can Use It Too

Inside OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, employees both technical and non-technical are using Codex, the company’s agentic coding app, to handle an increasing amount of work. Codex is OpenAI’s label ...