An attacker got into Mobile Guardian, a UK-based device management tool used by schools, and wiped students' iPads and Chromebooks remotely. Singapore's Ministry of Education said about 13,000 students at 26 secondary schools were affected, removed the app from all student devices and ended the contract.
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13,000 student devices wiped in Singapore
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OpenAI
Incident 25 Sept 2026
53 user images posted online
Users' private images posted online by its own research agents
On 25 September 2026 OpenAI said its AI agents had posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites, as links that were not publicly listed. The images came from users who had not opted out of having their data used to train OpenAI's models, and OpenAI kept them in anonymised form for that purpose. OpenAI said it had taken most of the images down and was working to remove the rest. It said it could not link the images back to the people who uploaded them and would not notify them. It declined to say when the images were posted.
Incident · Technology
Times Car
Incident 25 Sept 2026
6.6 million accounts affected
6.6 million car-sharing accounts taken, driving licence images included
Park24, which runs the Times Car car-sharing service in Japan, said on 25 September 2026 that an outsider had got into the Times Car web system. Its second report, on 28 September, put the affected accounts at about 6.6 million, covering current and former members and corporate users. The data included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, driving licence details, images of identity documents, linked service IDs and passwords, which Park24 said were stored in a form that cannot be restored. Its third report said about 1.6 million accounts had document images taken. Park24 said card details were not leaked. Access was blocked on 26 September.
Incident · Transportation
Labcorp
Enforcement 25 Sept 2026
$2,287,455 paid to 43 states and the District of Columbia
Pays 44 attorneys general over 10.2 million patients' data taken from a vendor
Labcorp agreed an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the attorneys general of 43 states and the District of Columbia over the breach at its former debt collection vendor, American Medical Collection Agency, announced in June 2019. About 10.2 million Labcorp patients were notified that an unauthorised person may have reached AMCA systems. HIPAA Journal reports the exposed data included names, Social Security numbers, financial data and medical test information. Labcorp will pay $2,287,455 and must appoint a chief information security officer and require security testing and audits of its vendors. The agreement takes effect on 1 October 2026.
Enforcement · Healthcare