Top Security Breaches 2026-08-11
Auto-generated 2026-08-11T09:01:45.327907+00:00 (UTC)
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-06T06:04:30+00:00 | Score: 16.763
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts.
The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at least 100 million people. Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, personally took at least $495,000 from
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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-06T12:16:58+00:00 | Score: 14.681
Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network.
Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed
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Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-11T06:55:45+00:00 | Score: 14.674
Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment.
The plant supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents. Recovery began at about 7:30 a.m. while the intruders were still active inside the network, and customers lost neither heat
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Valve notifies Steam hardware customers of a data breach
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-10T11:47:55+00:00 | Score: 14.164
Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics. […]
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China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw
Source: The Hacker News | Published: 2026-08-10T16:38:37+00:00 | Score: 13.596
Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor.
The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary’s previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team said.
“StormEncryptor is written in C++ and appends the file name extension .encrypted
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Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-07T20:14:46+00:00 | Score: 13.458
A critical Metabase SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances in data theft attacks, known to impact Framework and Tally. […]
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Unlimited Technology Systems breach impacts 3.8 million people
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-07T19:30:41+00:00 | Score: 13.45
Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems reported that more than 3.8 million people were impacted by a data breach incident that occurred in October 2025. […]
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Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year
Source: BleepingComputer | Published: 2026-08-10T23:07:21+00:00 | Score: 12.99
Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. […]
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