Ransomware and Data Breach Surge

ShinyHunters ransomware group hit three large Salesforce deployments in August 2026, stealing 21M, 25M, and 1.1M records, plus Hyundai Turkey, Liechtenstein registry, Singapore healthcare. Snowflake breach guilty plea (165 companies, $2.5M ransom) highlights cloud misconfiguration risks. Tata Electronics breach (630GB Apple data, cryptographic keys exposed) by World Leaks group demonstrates pure data extortion model without encryption. Salesforce pattern suggests common attack vector. New: Framework suffered a data breach via a Metabase zero-day, exposing customer PII and highlighting third-party risk.