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Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

UK Biobank suffered a data breach in April in which records for all 500,000 volunteers were listed for sale on Alibaba. Its Research Analysis Platform has been locked out to over 20,000 researchers while it rebuilds security, with a phased reopening pending approvals.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA), the insurer handling injury claims for mineworkers and metalworkers, is investigating an alleged theft of 1.68 million claim records. A hacker claims to hold 366GB of its data.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

The South African presidency pulled its website offline two days after the PHP project released fixes for critical flaws, pointing to a security exposure tied to the global PHP vulnerability scramble.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Security flaw in OpenCode AI coding agent (by Anomaly) let a malicious or hijacked MCP server execute code on developers' Windows and WSL machines at sign-in. Fixed in version 1.18.33.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) exposed its website backups online for several days, a data-exposure security failure at a named government agency.

Cybersecurity Incident · EMEA

Germany's AfD is investigating the publication of emails reportedly stolen in a cyberattack, indicating a data breach at the party's organisation. Only the headline was available, so details are limited.