SafePal breach affects 39,798 customers, data allegedly for sale
SafePal disclosed a breach exposing order data of 39,798 customers via an order-tracking plug-in flaw; the data appears for sale online.
Cryptocurrency wallet maker SafePal exposed names, phone numbers, addresses and purchase details for 39,798 orders placed between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026, due to an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in. Seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, payment cards and government IDs were not exposed, and no wallet or fund compromise was found. A threat actor is selling data on a cybercrime forum citing the same order window and count, and SafePal has taken down more than 30 phishing sites and notified customers on August 16.
SafePal Says 39,798 Customers Hit by Data Breach
Crypto wallet maker SafePal disclosed a breach exposing order data of 39,798 customers via a plugin authorization flaw; keys and seed phrases unaffected.
SafePal, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency security company, said an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plugin let attackers access order records placed between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026. Exposed data includes names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details for about 39,798 customers, while seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, and payment data were not exposed. A threat actor advertised the same dataset on a cybercrime forum, and affected customers were notified by email on August 16. The company patched the flaw, reduced data retention to 90 days, and removed over 30 fraudulent phishing websites.
Risky Bulletin: Expired cards can be used for new transactions
Researchers show expired Visa contactless cards can be revived via NFC man-in-the-middle relay to run fraudulent transactions; roundup also covers major breaches.
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers built an NFC man-in-the-middle rig that updates a card's expiration date in transit and relays the modified payment to POS terminals, reviving expired contactless cards; Visa terminals and the backends of all five banks studied failed to catch the manipulation. The same roundup reports Iranian hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, Lazarus breached South Korea's Presidential Office as part of a campaign exceeding 100 victims, and French telecom SFR suffered a breach affecting over 2.1 million customers.
Surfshark VPN says hackers breached internal testing, proxy servers
Surfshark disclosed that hackers accessed misconfigured internal test and proxy servers, exposing build credentials but not customer data, VPN traffic, or production infrastructure.
Surfshark said a human error left an internal engineering test server reachable from the internet, exposing service configurations, build-related credentials, and portions of system binaries and code history. A separate proxy server used for content-accessibility optimization was also accessed, but it stored no user identity data, IP addresses, encryption keys, or browsing traffic. Suspicious activity was detected on August 31, contained on September 2, and remediation completed on September 5, with no evidence of credential misuse or spread to other systems. The company rotated impacted credentials, revoked exposed tokens, added monitoring and hardening, and commissioned an independent infrastructure audit; no customer action is required.
CenterPoint Energy Confirms Data Breach Exposing Customers’ Personal Information
CenterPoint Energy confirmed an unauthorized third party accessed customer personal data via an external system, disclosed in an SEC Form 8-K filing.
CenterPoint Energy disclosed in a September 14, 2026 Form 8-K that an unauthorized third party obtained personal information of some customers through one of the company's external systems. The company learned of the incident after an online post claimed possession of a customer dataset, then activated incident-response protocols and engaged external forensic specialists. Electric and gas delivery operations were unaffected and the company does not expect a material financial impact, though response, notification, and compliance costs are being incurred. The number of affected customers, data types, and threat actor remain undisclosed as the investigation continues.