VVikram Kumar Shukla1d ago · 4 min readSBI Cyberattack Case Study: How 3,897 Customer Records Ended Up on the Dark WebOn Wednesday, 21 October 2026, the State Bank of India did something Indian banks rarely do quickly. It told the public, through a stock exchange filing, that it had been hit by a cyberattack and thatvikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev
CCyber Knight1d ago · 4 min readA Cyberattack Brought the Company Down — The Smart Buildings Never NoticedThe lights stayed on. That's not how these stories usually go. When a building-automation company gets hacked, you brace for the headline where someone's thermostat, door locks, or factory floor go hanulltrace.hashnode.dev
SShivam Sharma4d ago · 5 min readiRhythm Data Breach: 368K+ Patients Affected, Up to 8.2M at Risk — What to DoIf you've ever worn a Zio heart monitor — a small patch stuck to your chest for days while it recorded every heartbeat — your personal information may now be in a hacker's hands. iRhythm Technologies,shivam-techreview.hashnode.dev
VVikram Kumar Shukla6d ago · 4 min readA brand-new ransomware group just put 38 shipping companies on one hit list. Monday is the deadline.On 12 October, a ransomware operation most people had never heard of did something unusual: it named 38 companies at once. Not one victim, dripped out over weeks. Thirty-eight, in a single post. The gvikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev
4404 FoundersOct 6 · 4 min readDenmark CPR Incident: 8.8M Records AccessedDenmark CPR incident: 8.8M records accessed Denmark's CPR administration disclosed a serious security incident on 5 October 2026. An unauthorized party abused a private Danish company's lawful access 404-founders.com
VVikram Kumar ShuklaOct 5 · 5 min readAn insurer's name sat on a ransomware leak site for six weeks. Nobody knew what it meant.On August 22, 2026, a data-extortion crew calling itself Coinbase Cartel added Tower Insurance to its leak site. Tower Limited is a New Zealand insurer, listed on both the NZX and the ASX, with 323,00vikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev
VVikram Kumar ShuklaOct 3 · 4 min readA resident needed three clicks to find his city's leaked files on the dark webOn October 1, KOIN 6 News in Portland ran a story I can't stop thinking about. Not because the numbers were huge — they weren't — but because of how ordinary the whole failure was. McMinnville is a civikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev
VVikram Kumar ShuklaOct 1 · 4 min readA mortgage lender got hit by ransomware. A borrower sued within three days. That is the new clock.Three days. That's the gap between the ransomware attack and the lawsuit. On September 23, 2026, the BrainCipher ransomware group hit Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group, an Ann Arbor-based mortgage levikramkumarshukla.hashnode.dev
4404 FoundersAug 18 · 5 min readFrance’s Education Ministry Investigates a New Student Data Theft ClaimThe new claim reaches far beyond the July staff breach France’s Ministry of Education is investigating a fresh claim that personal data on students and teachers was stolen from its systems. The claim 404-founders.com
4404 FoundersJul 14 · 3 min readAccenture Data Breach 2026: What the Hacker Actually TookA hacker known as "888" put 35 gigabytes of what he claimed was Accenture's own source code up for sale on a cybercrime forum on July 6, alongside the access keys needed to actually use it. Accenture 404-founders.com