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DATA BleepingComputer

Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders

Pokémon Center is notifying customers in the United Kingdom and Germany that it suffered a third-party data breach after hackers stole customer personal and order information from third-party logistics provider CEVA Logistics. While CEVA's systems were compromised in the cyberattack, the exposed records belonged to Pokémon Center customers who submitted orders on the site. The company then shared this information with the logistics provider to fulfill and ship PokemonCenter.com orders. CEVA Logistics is a subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group, the world's third-largest shipping company. The logistics provider operates 1,000 warehouses, handled 15 million shipments last year, and reported $18.3 billion in revenue in 2025. The company recently suffered a cyberattack in which attackers breached its servers between July 29 and August 1, affecting multiple retailers in Europe.

Aug 17, 2026, 07:12 PM Read more →
WEBAPP Security Affairs

SafePal Says 39,798 Customers Hit by Data Breach

SafePal says a breach exposed personal data of 39,798 customers, but not wallet credentials, private keys, seed phrases, or payment information. SafePal disclosed a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after hackers exploited a vulnerability in its order-tracking plugin. The flaw exposed information linked to orders placed between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, including names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and order details. “Recently, the team identified an authorization flaw in the order-tracking function for a plug-in associated with customer order information. Under certain conditions, the flaw allowed unauthorized access to another customer’s order information.” reads the notice published by the company. “We are extremely sorry to inform the community that order information for customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026. Information including name, email address, shipping address, phone number, and purchase details, was accessed externally without authorization due to the flaw. The affected data involves approximately 39,798 customers.” SafePal is a Singapore-based company focused on cryptocurrency security. It develops hardware and software wallets that let users securely store and manage digital assets. Its products include hardware wallets, a mobile app and browser-based tools supporting multiple blockchains and cryptocurrencies. The disclosure came as a threat actor began advertising the stolen data on a cybercrime forum, claiming the same number of affected customers. SafePal confirmed the security breach incident, while warning users about the exposure of their personal and order-related information. The company said all affected customers were notified individually by email on August 16 and urged them to check their status. The exposed order data could enable more convincing phishing attempts, including fake support calls, emails, refund offers, firmware updates or malicious websites designed to steal additional information. SafePal stressed that seed phrases, private keys and wallet passwords were not exposed, so customers do not need to move their assets solely because of the breach. However, anyone who has shared a seed phrase or private key with an attacker should consider the wallet compromised, create a new one using a trusted device or official app, and immediately transfer the remaining funds. The crypto firm said the breach did not expose seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords or other wallet credentials. Bank details, payment card numbers and government IDs were also not involved. The company pointed out it does not collect or store such information and found no evidence that the incident compromised access to customer wallets or funds. “However, if you have already shared or entered your seed phrase or private key in response to a suspicious message, website, phone call, or letter, treat that wallet as compromised.” continyes the notice. “Create a new wallet using a trusted SafePal device or official SafePal application, and move your remaining assets to the new wallet immediately. Lastly, contact SafePal through our official support channel.” SafePal said it has fixed the vulnerability and added further security measures, with an independent security firm reviewing the fix and order-processing systems. The company also reduced data retention to 90 days, contacted affected customers and logistics partners, and opened a dedicated support channel. The firm identified more than 30 fraudulent websites and phishing links and removed them. It will continue monitoring scams, investigating potential risks and sharing updates through its official channels. SafePal urges customers who suffered financial losses linked to the breach to contact the company, which is working with specialists to trace stolen on-chain assets. “For more FAQs and details, we will keep updating the dedicated webpage for this incident.” concludes the notice. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, SafePal)

Aug 17, 2026, 05:54 PM Read more →
DATA BleepingComputer

French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals

The French Ministry of the Economy and Finance has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems and stole data belonging to 678,000 individuals. This incident was discovered after a threat actor using the "ZeroBytes" handle claimed the attack and listed a stolen database for sale on August 12 on the PwnForums hacking forum. "The in-depth investigations conducted since August 12, 2026, have established that, prior to their interruption, these access points had been used to consult and extract data concerning a total of 678,000 individuals and professionals, including tax data such as reference tax income, family quotient, and withholding tax rate, and, for businesses, data such as their company name and SIREN number," the French Finance Ministry said.

Aug 17, 2026, 10:09 AM Read more →
API The Hacker News CVE-2026-19478 ↗

Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects

GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478, has been rated Critical by GitLab and assigned a CVSS score of 9.4. Released on

Aug 17, 2026, 09:03 PM Read more →
WEBAPP The Hacker News CVE-2026-15748 ↗

Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias "

Aug 17, 2026, 06:22 PM Read more →
NETWORK The Hacker News

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster since December 2025 has led to the discovery of previously unreported components that expand the

Aug 17, 2026, 05:41 PM Read more →
NETWORK The Hacker News

How MCP Servers Can Expose Enterprise Secrets

MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in MCP server security. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI agents to reach the tools and data,

Aug 17, 2026, 11:58 AM Read more →
DATA BleepingComputer

SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data. SafePal says the breach impacts customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, exposing their names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase information. The company says the breach did not expose customers' wallet seed phrases, private keys, passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers, government-issued identification numbers, or other credentials. "No evidence has been found that the incident itself compromised access to SafePal wallets or funds," SafePal said in a security advisory published Sunday.

Aug 16, 2026, 11:47 PM Read more →
NETWORK Security Affairs

DDoS Attacks Cause Major Threema Outages

Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered multiple large-scale DDoS attacks that disrupted its secure messaging service and caused severe communication issues. Organizations using Threema On-Prem were not affected, as their deployments run on their own infrastructure. Threema is a Swiss paid secure messaging service, similar to WhatsApp or Signal, focused heavily on privacy and security. “If the attack originates simultaneously from multiple (and potentially changing) sources, it is referred to as a “Distributed Denial of Service” (DDoS) attack. This makes the attack significantly more difficult to defend against because it is not possible to simply block a single source.” reads the report. “Because sophisticated attackers constantly change their methods, sources, and attack patterns during an attack, a cat-and-mouse game ensues, with both sides continuously reacting to the other’s most recent action.” Users began reporting Threema outages on Tuesday evening. The company initially blamed a network issue at its colocation provider, but later confirmed it was facing a series of DDoS attacks. The attacks caused intermittent disruptions into Wednesday, with users in several countries still reporting problems even after Threema’s status page showed the service as operational. The company said a series of large-scale DDoS attacks also targeted its colocation partner, Nine. Attack patterns kept changing, making mitigation difficult. The service was unavailable for about four hours Tuesday evening, followed by intermittent outages Wednesday morning. Normal operations were restored at 12:23 p.m. CEST. “It is not entirely clear whether Threema was the primary target or whether the attacks were directed at multiple targets. In any case, they continued over an extended period and their patterns were constantly adapted, making them difficult to defend against.” continues the report. “As a result of these attacks, Threema was unavailable on Tuesday between 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. CEST. The page providing information on the current system status was initially not updated due to a technical issue unrelated to the attack. We therefore temporarily took it offline until the problem was resolved.” Threema communicated the service disruptions progressively through social media, while Threema Work customers received updates by email. To strengthen its defenses, Threema deployed additional upstream DDoS protection on August 14, filtering malicious traffic before it reached its infrastructure. The company also plans to improve its status page with an incident history and RSS feed, giving users and administrators another way to receive independent service updates. “We will also expand the status page in the coming days. The update will include an incident history and an RSS feed that interested users and Threema Work administrators can subscribe to in order to receive system updates through an independent channel.” concludes the report. “We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, DDoS) “Business customers using Threema Work were informed via email on Wednesday morning about the unstable service conditions, and account managers provided information on the current situation in response to inquiries.” To avoid similar incidents, the Swiss company has implemented “specialized DDoS protection as an additional measure” to filter attack traffic upstream and reduce the load on its infrastructure. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

Aug 16, 2026, 11:38 PM Read more →
API BleepingComputer

Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services

Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. The incident began on August 16, 2026, at around 21:58 UTC, and is affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. According to Anthropic’s status page, the company first said it was investigating an issue preventing some users from authenticating to Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. A few minutes later, Anthropic reported a broader service disruption involving degraded performance on Claude.ai and platform.claude.com. For users, the outage can result in problems signing in, Claude failing to load, requests not completing, or other errors when using the affected services. Anthropic’s status page currently classifies Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as experiencing a major outage. Claude Console and the Claude API are currently listed as operational.

Aug 16, 2026, 10:28 PM Read more →