Starbucks data breach impacts 889 employees

Multiple high-impact security events reported: Starbucks disclosed a phishing-driven breach of its Partner Central employee portal impacting 889 employees and exposing staff data. Microsoft-linked analysis attributes a credential‑harvest campaign to Storm-2561 that uses SEO‑poisoned search results and spoofed Ivanti/Cisco/Fortinet VPN sites to steal corporate logins. INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia III dismantled ~45,000 malicious IPs/servers and led to 94 arrests. Law enforcement disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service backed by the AVrecon botnet (≈360,000 infected devices). IBM X-Force found