Arizona Labor Force will pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit over a 2023 breach that exposed employee SSNs and W2 data to the dark web, after a federal judge granted preliminary approval, three years after the incident and no direct notice to workers.
Gujarat Banking and Insurance Data Sold Openly on the Dark Web for Three Months, Report Says
Bhaskar English reports that Gujarat residents' banking and insurance data has been sold openly on the dark web for three months, a claim that lands amid a wider 2026 pattern of Indian financial sector leaks including Bank of Baroda's terabyte scale breach.
Mohali Insurer Vitraya Asks Supreme Court to Order CBI Probe Into Alleged Rival-Linked Data Breach
Vitraya Technologies wants a CBI probe into a 2025 breach it blames on rival health-tech firms, after police took six months to file an FIR against unknown persons. The Supreme Court has now issued notice.
River Bank Says Hackers Deleted Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack
River Financial Corporation says it got the ransomware gang that hit its servers in June to promise the stolen data was deleted. CISOs should know why that promise means little.
AI Is Rewriting Data Breach Economics, and BFSI and Energy Are Paying the Price
IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report finds AI-enabled attacks now cost $6 million on average and hit financial services and energy hardest, with India's breach costs also climbing as enterprises expand AI adoption across critical infrastructure.




