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Distinct breaches, incidents, and newly disclosed issues as they're reported — separate from the CVE-anchored advisories, which track confirmed exploited vulnerabilities specifically.

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SN-2026-580HighOpen

State Bank of India Investigates Customer Data Exposure Found on Dark Web

State Bank of India is investigating a customer data leak after thousands of records surfaced on BreachForums containing PII and internal bank IDs.

Oct 21, 2026
SN-2026-579InformationalMitigated

OWASP Incubating Project DevGuard Streamlines Supply Chain Vulnerability Management

DevGuard offers open-source software supply chain protection, combining multi-scanner CLI workflows, VEX handling, and dependency firewalling.

Oct 21, 2026
SN-2026-578HighOpen

California Warns Millions of Public School Students Following ETS Data Breach

A months-long breach at assessment contractor ETS exposed PII and academic records for millions of California public school students.

Oct 21, 2026
SN-2026-577HighResolved

Siemens Patches Software Center Flaw Exploited in Romulus ClickFix Campaign

Attackers are abusing a DLL side-loading flaw in Siemens Software Center via Romulus ClickFix tactics to deploy LegionLoader and compromise systems.

Oct 21, 2026
SN-2026-576HighMitigated

Nikkei Discloses Data Breach as Compromised Credentials Expose 1.8M Records

Japanese media giant Nikkei confirmed a cloud data breach stemming from compromised credentials, exposing PII for 270,000 individuals.

Oct 20, 2026
SN-2026-575HighOpen

Paradigm Healthcare Data Breach Exposes 970,000 Medi-Cal Member Records

Paradigm Healthcare Services disclosed a network breach impacting 970,000 California Medi-Cal members, taking nearly a year to notify victims.

Oct 20, 2026
SN-2026-574CriticalOpen

Active Exploitation of PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257 Drivers Pivots to Hypervisors and Domain…

Ransomware operators including Qilin and Inc are actively exploiting PAN-OS vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 to bypass GlobalProtect MFA and dump credentials.

Oct 20, 2026
SN-2026-573HighMitigated

Nikkei Discloses Third Data Breach in a Month Exposing 1.8 Million Records

Japanese media giant Nikkei suffers its third breach in a month after attackers used stolen credentials to access cloud development systems exposing 1.8M…

Oct 20, 2026
SN-2026-572HighMitigated

Ukrainian Drone Attack Hits Key VK Data Center Near St. Petersburg

A Ukrainian FP-1 drone strike damaged a major VK data center near St. Petersburg, causing network connectivity drops and widespread service disruptions.

Oct 19, 2026
SN-2026-571HighMitigated

ETS SFTP Breach Exposes Millions of California Student Records

A compromised login on an ETS file transfer server exposed sensitive records for millions of California public school students dating back to 2006.

Oct 19, 2026
SN-2026-570CriticalMitigated

PwnEscape Bug in Linux KVM Allows Guest-to-Host Escape via IPv4 Packets

CVE-2026-99999 (PwnEscape) reveals a critical Linux KVM guest-host escape flaw that exploits untrusted IPv4 checksum metadata in kernel networking.

Oct 19, 2026
SN-2026-569HighOpen

Ransomware Operators Escalate Tactics to Swatting, Personal Threats, and Identity…

Semperis' 2026 Ransomware Risk Report reveals ransomware groups increasingly threat employees' families, launch swatting attacks, and exploit identity tools.

Oct 19, 2026