BridgePay Network Solutions (vendor) impacting City of Marietta online payments
February 15, 2026
•[ ransomware, third-party risk, payment processing outage ]
City officials said Mariettas inability to process some online credit card payments was caused by a nationwide ransomware incident at BridgePay Network Solutions, one of the citys online payment gateway providers. The city stated its own systems and data were not compromised, but the vendor outage disrupted payment processing for municipal services. Officials worked to stand up a secure alternative solution while the vendor coordinated response with federal authorities and incident-response partners.
Flickr (via an undisclosed third-party provider)
February 5, 2026
•[ data leak, third-party risk, phishing ]
Flickr notified users of a potential data breach after a vulnerability in a system operated by one of its third-party email service providers may have allowed unauthorized access to member information. Flickr said it was alerted on February 5, 2026 and shut down access to the affected system within hours. The company stated that passwords and payment card numbers were not compromised. Exposed data may include real names, email addresses, usernames, account type, IP address, general location, and platform activity; Flickr urged vigilance for phishing and recommended changing passwords on other services if reused.
Betterment
January 9, 2026
•[ social engineering, data leak, phishing ]
TechCrunch reported that Betterment confirmed hackers accessed some of its systems on January 9, 2026 through a social engineering attack involving third-party platforms used for marketing and operations. Betterment said the attackers accessed customer personal information including names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth, and used that access to send fraudulent scam notifications to users. The company said it detected and revoked unauthorized access the same day, launched an investigation with external help, and stated its ongoing investigation indicated no customer accounts were accessed and no passwords or login credentials were compromised. Betterment did not disclose how many customers were affected.
Anchorage Police Department via Whitebox Technologies
January 7, 2026
•[ security incident, third-party risk, data migration ]
Anchorage Police Department reported it took immediate containment actions after being alerted on January 7, 2026 to a security incident affecting one of its technology service providers, Whitebox Technologies (a data migration firm). According to reporting cited in the post, the Citys IT department shut down the relevant Anchorage Police Department servers and disabled the vendors access along with all third-party service provider access while incident response work continued. As of the report date, no ransomware group had publicly claimed responsibility and there was no public statement from the vendor. Public reporting did not confirm whether any APD data was accessed or exfiltrated, but it confirms operational disruption via server shutdown and access suspension.
