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- Named in breach reports by The RecordFlorida Department of Education warns 4.9 million people had Social Security numbers leaked in financial aid site breach
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Binance and Polymarket crypto thefts, airline and state data breaches, and exploited flaws in Cisco, Drupal and Linux
Binance reportedly lost about $6.3 billion in digital assets after a DevOps engineer's laptop was compromised, and the incident is linked to a North Korean group. Polymarket lost about $2.7 million through malicious JavaScript delivered by a compromised third-party service, while Japan Airlines and the Florida Department of Education reported breaches affecting about 92,000 passengers and 4.9 million individuals. Actively exploited flaws include HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497), a Cisco SSL VPN crash bug (CVE-2026-76418) and a Drupal Commerce Core access control flaw (CVE-2026-118539).
Florida student aid website breach may expose data of 4.9 million people
The Florida Department of Education disclosed a breach of its student financial aid website. Social Security numbers and other personal data may have been exposed, with around 4.9 million people potentially at risk.
Florida Department of Education warns 4.9 million people had Social Security numbers leaked in financial aid site breach
The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) said on Thursday that it became aware of a data breach affecting the Florida Student Financial Aid website on 19 October. The department says Social Security numbers belonging to 4.9 million people were leaked. The article excerpt gives no further detail on the cause or the attacker.