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CenterPoint Energy Data Breach – Hackers Stolen Customer’s Personal Data

CenterPoint Energy confirmed via SEC 8-K filing that an unauthorized third party stole customer personal data from an internet-facing system.

Houston-based utility CenterPoint Energy disclosed a breach in a Form 8-K filed September 14, 2026, after an online post claimed to offer a dataset of customer information. The company confirmed an unauthorized party accessed personal information for a portion of its customer base via an internet-facing system, but has not disclosed how many individuals were affected or what data types were exposed. Investigation with external forensic experts is ongoing, law enforcement and regulators have been notified, and electric and gas delivery operations remain unaffected. CenterPoint does not expect a material financial impact but warned the scope could grow as the review continues.

Cyber Security News · 17h agoData breach 5 sources

AI Agent Carries Out Multi-Stage Data Theft Attack

Spain's data protection agency reports the country's first agentic AI-powered breach: an AI agent logged in, found vulnerabilities, and modified personal data.

Spain's Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos (AEPD) disclosed on September 14 what it calls the country's first agentic AI-powered personal data breach. An agent using a known language model scanned generic files to log in, then autonomously searched for application vulnerabilities, modified personal data, and accessed invoices. AEPD said the agent was used as an instrument to chain attack phases, implying deliberate use by a threat actor rather than a rogue model. CybaVerse CTO Simon Phillips suggested the actor likely jailbreaked or bypassed the model's guardrails.

Infosecurity Magazine · 1h agoData breach in the wild

Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories

Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an AI coding-assistant session at a SaaS provider and spread the Shai-Hulud worm across roughly 100 repositories, stealing secrets.

Mandiant's September 2026 report describes an attacker hijacking an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed SaaS provider, then getting a poisoned package recommendation accepted and installing an infostealer via a malicious PyPI package. The attacker stole GitHub OAuth tokens, deployed the self-spreading Shai-Hulud worm across approximately 100 internal repositories, and stole repository secrets and product source code. Poisoning a package in the company's official namespace caused a second employee to pull the compromised version and become infected. Mandiant recommends verifying AI-recommended dependencies against checksums and allowlists, keeping secrets out of extension reach, and routing dependency traffic through internal repositories.

The Hacker News · 19h agoData breach in the wild