Topic: historical incidents
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Hacker Hijacks Apex Legends Characters in Live Matches
Hackers remotely hijacked player characters and servers in *Apex Legends*, causing forced disconnections and altering usernames, which Respawn Entertainment confirmed as an active security incident. The attack was not due to a critical system exploit like remote code execution, but likely stemmed...
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Nissan Data Breach Exposes Thousands via Red Hat
A data breach at Red Hat, Nissan's software vendor, exposed personal information of approximately 21,000 Nissan customers in Japan, highlighting risks from third-party vulnerabilities. The breach originated from a major October attack on Red Hat, where stolen data was later leaked by threat actor...
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Power Outage Snarls San Francisco Traffic with Stranded Waymo Cars
A major power outage in San Francisco stranded multiple Waymo autonomous vehicles, highlighting a vulnerability in their infrastructure-dependent systems, while Tesla's FSD feature reportedly operated unaffected. Waymo proactively suspended its service for safety, with speculation that the vehicl...
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Pennsylvania AG Confirms Data Breach in INC Ransom Attack
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office experienced a ransomware attack in August 2025, leading to a data breach where cybercriminals stole sensitive personal and medical information, but officials refused to pay the ransom. The attack exploited vulnerabilities in public-facing Citrix NetScale...
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YouTube Blocks Users with Ad Blockers From Loading Videos
A recent YouTube outage was mistakenly reported by users, but the actual cause was ad-blocking software preventing the site from loading properly. YouTube has been actively fighting ad blockers since 2023, as they violate its terms of service, leading to user issues that mimic service failures. W...
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Instagram Denies Data Breach After 17M Account Leak Claims
Instagram resolved a software bug that allowed unauthorized password reset requests, but denies any internal data breach occurred. A dataset containing personal information like emails and phone numbers from over 17 million accounts has been leaked online, likely from older data scraping. The lea...
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Critical Redis Flaw Exposes Thousands of Instances
A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-49844) in Redis allows authenticated attackers to execute remote code via a use-after-free flaw in Lua scripting, posing a severe risk to systems. The flaw affects a vast number of organizations due to Redis's widespread use in cloud environments, and i...
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