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MCNA Breach Settlement: 8.9M Hit, $6.4M in Fees [2026]
A settlement has resolved one of the largest healthcare data breach lawsuits still working through the U.S. court system. The HIPAA Journal reported on September 3, 2026 that Managed Care of North America, Inc. (MCNA) has agreed to a multi-million-dollar settlement fund closing out class action litigation tied to a 2023 ransomware attack that hit…
IDScan.net Breach: Nexus Sold 153M IDs, Hegseth Hit [2026]
A dark-web marketplace called Nexus spent late August advertising something cybercrime forums rarely traffic in at this scale: not passwords, not credit card numbers, but forensic-grade scans of the physical identity documents that get you a hotel room, a rental car, or a legal cannabis purchase. By the time Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity finished tracing…
VMware vCenter Bug Hits 361 IPs in 47 Nations [2026]
A single directory traversal bug in VMware vCenter Server has turned into one of the broadest hypervisor-level ransomware campaigns of 2026. Security researchers tracking exploitation of CVE-2026-59310, a CVSS 9.8 flaw in vCenter’s Syslog server, say a suspected China-nexus actor has already compromised 361 victim IP addresses spread across 47 countries, using the access to…
Qualcomm Confirms Dual Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Chips, 5GHz [2026]
Qualcomm has confirmed it will unveil two new flagship mobile chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, running September 22-24 in Maui, Hawaii, and the early details are already reshaping expectations for next year’s Android flagships. According to GSMArena, the chipmaker teased “Dual 8 Elites” in social posts published August 19-20, 2026, confirming for the first time…
AMD RDNA 5 Leak Targets 3.5 GHz GPU Clocks [2026]
A new leak dropped on September 4, 2026 claims AMD is chasing GPU clock speeds as high as 3.5 GHz on its next-generation RDNA 5 architecture, a jump that would put the chipmaker’s graphics silicon in territory no consumer GPU has touched before. The figures, first reported by TechPowerUp and echoed by outlets including Club386,…
CIS Benchmarks Server Hardening: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
A misconfigured server does not announce itself. It just sits there, quietly accepting the default settings a vendor shipped it with, until someone finds the gap. The Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found that software vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the top initial access vector in confirmed breaches, appearing in roughly 31%…
Thomson Reuters Court Breach: 11 States, 3-Month Gap [2026]
Thomson Reuters disclosed on September 2, 2026, that an unauthorized party accessed files from its C-Track court case management platform, exposing sensitive records tied to courts in 11 US states, the US Virgin Islands, and three courts in Ontario, Canada. The disclosure lands in the same week as reporting on a separate 153 million driver’s…
How to Patch and Play Pokémon ROM Hacks: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]
Pokémon ROM hacks like Radical Red, Unbound, and Emerald Kaizo have turned into their own subgenre, with harder trainer AI, updated movesets, and post-game content that rivals official titles. But almost every guide to playing them skips the part that trips people up first: the patch itself. ROM hacks aren’t distributed as playable files. They…
In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.