A council has apologised after a data breach saw a number of email addresses disclosed in error. Dumfries and Galloway Council is understood to have sent the addresses out with a customer survey from its planning department.

At PMQs today, prime minister Keir Starmer said that former Tory ministers had “serious questions to answer” over a secret scheme to resettle Afghan nationals who were named in a data leak.

The Ministry of Defence used a super-injunction to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban. The breach, which can now be reported on following the lifting of the order on Tuesday (15 July),

Cybercriminals accessed Medicare data of more than 100,000 Americans by creating fraudulent accounts, prompting CMS to deactivate accounts and issue new Medicare cards.

A ransomware group has claimed credit for Belk’s data breach in May. DragonForce stole 156 GB of data from the Charlotte-based department store chain, several cybersecurity news outlets reported Tuesday.

The medical billing company Episource has begun notifying millions of patients across the US about a data breach that took place earlier this year.

In a separate report, filed in the meantime with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, Episource confirmed that exactly 5,418,866 people were affected by the attack. Earlier reports also stated the company started notifying them on April 23, 2025, although these were unconfirmed reports.

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