Timeline · The global cyber war

October 2026

12 days with records in October 2026, newest first. Each day has a short brief linked to its records, and cards for places, new counts, statements, votes and prices.

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Day

31 October 2026

1 event · 2 statements

What was hit

  • Official responses 1

No incident on the record for this day

Statement

The FBI said North Korea was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from Binance on or about 29 October, tied it to the actor it calls TraderTraitor, and asked exchanges to block transactions with 628 addresses it published.

Government of the United States
31 Oct · to a mixed audience
Reported by BleepingComputer

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Day

30 October 2026

1 event

Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis made public that an external actor had gained unauthorized access to its systems and internal tools, and later said the names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens of all its users had been exposed. [1]

Every sentence and figure comes from the records linked after it.

What was hit

  • Companies and software 1

1 incident in 0 countries · 1 not attributed

Day

29 October 2026

3 events

Binance said it was investigating a potential security issue and temporarily halted withdrawals across multiple networks, TechCrunch reported, and the FBI later said more than $6 billion was stolen on or about 29 October and that North Korea was responsible. [1] Russia's statistics agency Rosstat said targeted attacks on its resources took place from 29 October to 1 November, Anti-Malware.ru reported, and told RBC that no leak of protected information was recorded, while the hacker groups Cyber Partisans BY and Silent Crow said they took about 23 TB of data, Mediazona reported. [1] PayCloud Holdings said unauthorised access to its Arara Message email service led to information leaking and the service being stopped. [1]

Every sentence and figure comes from the records linked after it.

What was hit

  • Finance 1
  • Government 1
  • Companies and software 1

3 incidents in 2 countries · 2 not attributed

Day

28 October 2026

1 event

Iris Plaza, the online shop of Japan's Iris Ohyama group, said it found unauthorized access by a third party and stopped its official online shop, and later said personal data of up to about 7.7 million people may have leaked, Netshop Tanto-sha Forum reported. [1]

Every sentence and figure comes from the records linked after it.

What was hit

  • Companies and software 1

1 incident in 1 country · 1 not attributed

Day

26 October 2026

1 event

What was hit

  • Health 1

1 incident in 1 country · 1 not attributed

Day

24 October 2026

1 event · 1 statement

AI inference company Fireworks said an unauthorised party used a third-party cloud provider's security incident to reach its development machines on 24 October, reaching some customers' resource metadata, billing information and incomplete model weights and datasets, BleepingComputer reported. [1] Moldovan government spokesperson Dumitru Ciorici said the country had suffered a cyberattack that made some online services unavailable and that the government suspects it is part of hybrid attacks against Moldova.

Every sentence and figure comes from the records linked after it.

What was hit

  • Companies and software 1

1 incident in 1 country · 1 not attributed

Statement

Moldovan government spokesperson Dumitru Ciorici said the country had suffered a cyberattack that made some online services unavailable and that the government suspects it is part of hybrid attacks against Moldova.

Government of Moldova
24 Oct · to a domestic audience
Reported by Moldpres

Day

22 October 2026

1 event

What was hit

  • Government 1

1 incident in 1 country · 1 not attributed

Day

16 October 2026

1 event

What was hit

  • Companies and software 1

1 incident in 0 countries · 1 not attributed

Day

15 October 2026

1 event

The Hechingen regional court sentenced a 36-year-old to six years and four months in prison for computer fraud in 18 cases, heise online reported, finding that he reached victims' online bank accounts and moved about 920,000 euros to accounts at crypto firms. [1]

Every sentence and figure comes from the records linked after it.

What was hit

  • Official responses 1

No incident on the record for this day

Day

12 October 2026

2 events

What was hit

  • Companies and software 1
  • Official responses 1

1 incident in 1 country · 1 not attributed

Day

11 October 2026

1 event

What was hit

  • Food and cold chain 1

1 incident in 1 country · 0 not attributed

Day

8 October 2026

2 events

What was hit

  • Government 1
  • Official responses 1

1 incident in 1 country · 1 not attributed

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