Medtronic Notifies 3.8 Million After ShinyHunters Data Breach

Multiple high-impact incidents and trends: Medtronic notified 3.83M people after a ShinyHunters data-exposure/extortion event (personal and medical data exposed). FBI FLASH highlights TeamPCP poisoning widely used developer/security tools to harvest cloud credentials, push malware via updates, and extort victims. A U.S. agency reportedly paid $1M to Kairos (data-extortion group). Sysdig documents JADEPUFFER, an end-to-end AI-driven ransomware operation that automated exploitation, credential theft, lateral movement, and encryption. Vercel’s April 2026 breach demonstrates a shadow-AI supply‑ch​