Data leaks and breaches: what was exposed, how it happened and what to change in your own systems.
Part 1 ended on a 70-gigabyte breach in 2021. Since then, hacktivists derailed trains, dumped molten steel on camera, and reached grids in three countries.
Vercel confirmed a security breach on April 18-19, 2026, tracing back to a compromised third-party AI tool and a single employee's Google Workspace connection. Here is the full attack chain, what was actually exposed, and what you need to do right now.
On March 31, 2026, Anthropic published version 2.1.88 of Claude Code to the npm registry. Bundled inside was a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map file
Infostealers are commodity malware that silently harvest credentials, session tokens, and crypto wallets from infected machines. The Lumma Stealer infection that triggered the Vercel breach started with one. Here is how they work and why they are so effective.
A CEO bragged he'd unmasked Anonymous. Hours later, a SQL injection in his own CMS ended his career. The real attack chains behind hacktivism, tools included.
