Cybernews reports that major U.S. appliance repair provider Sears Home Services had nearly 3.7 million customer service records from 2024 to 2026 inadvertently exposed by unsecured AI customer support bot databases.
North Korean hacking collective Lazarus Group has been blamed by cryptocurrency e-commerce platform Bitrefill for a cyberattack against portions of its infrastructure earlier this month, which led to the theft of 18,500 purchase records, reports CoinDesk.
Texas-based anonymous crime tip firm P3 Global Intel had more than 8.3 million records from the Crime Stoppers program spanning from February 1987 to November 2025 stolen by THE INTERNET YIFF MACHINE hacking group, reports Straight Arrow News.
FBI Director Kash Patel stated that the agency "uses all tools" for its mission and purchases commercially available information consistent with the Constitution and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which has yielded valuable intelligence.
Russell Cellular, which is a leading Verizon authorized retailer in the U.S., had over 6.3 million customer records claimed to be compromised by hackers, who are peddling the dataset for $1,200, Cybernews reports.
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