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VRChat Data Breach Notice Posted to Maine Government Website Turns Out to be a Phony

June 17, 2026

A supposed data breach prompted coverage from a number of national media sources, as it claimed to involve popular social platform VRChat and some 2.5 million of its users. The fake notice went so far as to make up an accompanying fake disclosure statement from VRChat themselves.

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Korean Ecommerce Giant Hit With Record-Setting Fine Over Massive Data Breach

June 15, 2026

The 2025 data breach of Coupang, the South Korean ecommerce giant often referred to as the country's equivalent of Amazon, is going to cost the company a total of about 624 billion won (the equivalent of about $411 million) in fines.

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ServiceNow Security Breach Exposes Enterprise Customer Data

June 15, 2026

Cloud computing company ServiceNow has confirmed a security breach that affected enterprise customers’ instances stemming from an unsecured REST API endpoint.

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Oxford Confirms Third-Party Data Breach Impacting CareerConnect Platform Exposed Personal Information

June 12, 2026

A third-party data breach affecting Oxford University’s CareerConnect job portal has exposed personal information belonging to students, alumni, researchers, and employers.

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Five Eyes: Chinese Espionage Uses LinkedIn Recruitment to Target Security and Intelligence Officers

June 11, 2026

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint alert warning that Chinese espionage operatives are using LinkedIn recruitment to target security and intelligence officers.

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Inside Source Claims Anthropic Has Sent Mythos AI Engineers to NSA for Cyber Operations Training

June 11, 2026

NSA primarily conducts intelligence gathering and hacking against foreign adversaries. It does raise questions about to what degree the government is now planning to embrace Mythos AI in cyber operations and would appear to be a powerful confirmation of the system's cyber capabilities.

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New US National Security Order Calls for Pre-Release Access and Assessment of AI Models

June 8, 2026

The executive order instructs the National Security Agency, Department of Defense and other agencies to create a benchmarking standard to determine the degree to which AI models are a cyber risk that may impact national security, but stresses that it is not a "mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement" for developers.

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Hackers Hijacked Instagram Accounts by Tricking Meta AI Support Chatbot into Linking Their Email Address

June 8, 2026

A security flaw enabled hackers to take over Instagram accounts by tricking Meta AI support chatbot into adding an attacker-controlled email address and triggering a password reset.

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Lead EU Cybersecurity Agency to Receive Early Access to Mythos AI

June 5, 2026

On June 2, Anthropic confirmed that it will be adding 150 new organizations across some 15 countries to the "Project Glasswing" access to Mythos AI Preview and that ENISA will be among these.

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Commercial Location Data Used to Track Deployed U.S. Military Across Theaters of Operation

June 4, 2026

United States Central Command has disclosed that commercially available location data was used to track deployed U.S. military personnel across various theatres of operation.

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VRChat Data Breach Notice Posted to Maine Government Website Turns Out to be a Phony

Korean Ecommerce Giant Hit With Record-Setting Fine Over Massive Data Breach

ServiceNow Security Breach Exposes Enterprise Customer Data

Oxford Confirms Third-Party Data Breach Impacting CareerConnect Platform Exposed Personal Information

Five Eyes: Chinese Espionage Uses LinkedIn Recruitment to Target Security and Intelligence Officers

Inside Source Claims Anthropic Has Sent Mythos AI Engineers to NSA for Cyber Operations Training

New US National Security Order Calls for Pre-Release Access and Assessment of AI Models

Hackers Hijacked Instagram Accounts by Tricking Meta AI Support Chatbot into Linking Their Email Address

Lead EU Cybersecurity Agency to Receive Early Access to Mythos AI

Commercial Location Data Used to Track Deployed U.S. Military Across Theaters of Operation

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People

Chinese Actors Deploy LLM Gateways to Clone U.S. Frontier AI Models

Google Joins the Rogue AI Model Party, But Insists Its “Mistaken Identity” Incidents Were Not Misalignment