Tag: third party risk
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Oxford University Exposes Student Data in Career Website Breach
Oxford University recently suffered a data breach on its career support website, exposing sensitive student information, including full names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. This incident marks the university's second disclosed data breach of the year, raising concerns about the security of third-party platforms.
SoFi Hong Kong Breach Exposes Customer Data at Third-Party Vendor
SoFi Hong Kong recently discovered a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed customer information, with unauthorized access detected on April 30, 2026. The company's investigation is ongoing, but it confirmed the breach originated from a vendor, not its internal systems.
NYC Health Breach Exposes 1.8M Patients' Sensitive Data
A massive data breach at NYC Health + Hospitals has exposed the sensitive information of 1.8 million patients, highlighting the alarming vulnerability of personal data in the healthcare system. This incident serves as a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of a breach, especially when it comes to biometric data that can never be truly reset.
Data Breaches Surge, Exposing Sensitive Info at AI Startups, Agencies
Data breaches are surging, with AI startups and agencies exposed, as seen in the alarming theft of 10 petabytes from a Chinese supercomputer and 4 terabytes from AI startup Mercor due to a supply-chain vulnerability. These incidents highlight the hidden risks of connecting data to AI models, creating sensitive blind spots that leave large data sets vulnerable to compromise.
Vimeo Breach Exposes 119,000 Email Addresses
A data breach at Vimeo has compromised the email addresses of over 119,000 users, with hackers also accessing some metadata and technical data from a third-party analytics vendor. Fortunately, no video content, login credentials, or payment card information was stolen.
Vimeo Breach Exposes User Data After Anodot Hack
Vimeo users, be aware: a recent data breach at analytics company Anodot exposed some of your personal info, including video titles, metadata, and in some cases, email addresses. Fortunately, uploaded video content, account credentials, and payment card info remain safe.
Vercel Breach Exposes Customer Data Theft via AI Tool Compromise
A single compromised AI tool has led to a massive breach at Vercel, exposing customer data and raising serious questions about trust and security. An attacker exploited a third-party AI tool used by an employee to steal sensitive credentials and OAuth tokens, gaining access to multiple services and customer data.
Vercel Breach Traced to Compromised AI Tool
A recent Vercel breach highlights a growing concern: what happens when AI tools, meant to boost efficiency, become the weakest link in our security chain? The breach was traced back to a third-party AI tool used by an employee, blurring the lines between human error and machine vulnerability.
Vercel Breach Exposes Customer Credentials After AI Tool Hack
When a trusted AI tool turns against you, the consequences can be severe - as Vercel recently discovered, with hackers gaining access to sensitive customer credentials through a compromised employee account. The breach highlights the fragile chains of trust that can be broken when security defenses fail.
Taboola Exploits Banking Sessions to Route Users to Temu Tracking Endpoint
Imagine a single line of code secretly redirecting people logged into their bank accounts to a commercial tracking site - that's what happened when a bank unknowingly approved a Taboola pixel that sent users to a Temu tracking endpoint. This sneaky exploit slipped past security controls, leaving both the bank and its users none the wiser.
Healthcare Sector Tackles Third-Party AI Security Gaps with New Guidance
The healthcare sector is taking a major step towards securing its AI-powered tools with new guidance from the Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) that helps tackle the growing threat of third-party AI security gaps. This playbook is a timely response to the explosion of AI-related cyber risks from vendors, and aims to safeguard the industry's increasing reliance on externally developed artificial intelligence.
McGraw Hill Breach Exposed by Salesforce Setup Flaw
A configuration error in Salesforce, a widely used customer relationship management platform, led to a data breach at McGraw Hill, exposing customer data and raising questions about vendor services and data stewardship. The incident highlights the importance of proper setup and management of third-party services to protect sensitive information.
Hims & Hers Discloses Data Breach After Zendesk Ticket Compromise
Hims & Hers Health has alerted customers to a data breach after sensitive support tickets were stolen from a third-party platform operated by Zendesk, raising concerns about consumer safety when sharing personal info online. The breach exposed data from support tickets, highlighting the vulnerability of sensitive transactions on external systems.
Third-Party Risk Exposes Hidden Weaknesses in Client Security Posture
The next big security breach hitting your clients likely won't come from within their own walls, but from a blind spot they never suspected: their trusted third-party relationships with vendors, SaaS tools, and subcontractors. Most organizations are woefully underprepared for this expanding attack surface.
Mercor Hit in Widespread LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack
Thousands of companies, including AI hiring startup Mercor, have been hit by a widespread LiteLLM supply-chain attack, marking the first publicly disclosed downstream casualty of a software supply-chain intrusion. This incident raises a critical question: how can organizations trust their tech toolchains when the chain itself can be compromised?
ThreatsDay Bulletin Exclusive: Essential Cyber Threats
Ever wondered what happens when trusted doors are left unlocked? This ThreatsDay Bulletin shows how trusted attack chains—everyday files, SMS, cloud APIs and smart contracts—are being repurposed into stealthy, high‑leverage strikes and what you can do to shut them down.
Security Leaders Exclusive: Damaging Marquis Breach
The Marquis data breach exposed hundreds of thousands of tax‑credit records — and it asks a blunt question: when trust is the currency, who pays? Security leaders say this wasn’t a freak accident but a familiar mix of human error, misconfiguration and governance gaps that proves convenience still too often outpaces caution.
Security Leaders Exclusive: Critical Take on Marquis Breach
Nearly 250,000 Americans had their tax‑credit records exposed in the Marquis breach — a wake‑up call that this wasnt just a technical slip but a systemic security failure companies, regulators, and consumers must fix together. Experts break down what went wrong, who’s accountable, and the urgent steps to protect victims and prevent the next catastrophe.
Security Leaders Exclusive: Alarming Marquis Breach Insight
The Marquis data breach forces a simple but urgent question: when a trusted provider is compromised, who pays — the vendor, its customers, or the wider ecosystem? With attackers evolving faster than defenders, security leaders say it’s time to rethink third‑party and supply‑chain risk.
Coupang Breach: Stunning Damage Hits 34M, Leaders React
Coupang breach jolted roughly 34 million customers after attackers used vishing and compromised vendor channels to steal—and then extort—sensitive data; here’s what went wrong and what customers and companies need to do next.
Logitech Breach Prompts Stunning Critical Security Response
The confirmed Logitech breach is a wake‑up call for anyone with vendor integrations. Security leaders recommend treating third‑party access as an attack vector — audit entitlements, tighten tokens and OAuth scopes, and boost detection to stop downstream damage.
Security Leaders Exclusive: Best Take on Cloudflare Outage
The Cloudflare outage turned an hour of access problems into a test of trust—slowing or blocking services from ChatGPT to X and local government sites and forcing us to ask how much of the internet rests on one company’s shoulders.
OpenAI Warns: Exclusive Critical Mixpanel Breach
OpenAI is urging users to rotate keys and audit integrations after a Mixpanel breach that may have exposed leaked API keys and telemetry — a wake‑up call that third‑party analytics can become an attack vector overnight.
FBI Exclusive: Stunning $262M Costly Account Takeovers
Imagine waking to find your bank account emptied by someone who cloned your bank’s site — the FBI says over $262M has been lost to account takeover scams since January 2025. Learn how phishing, credential stuffing and fake reporting pages let criminals turn stolen logins into instant cash — and what you can do to stop them.