28-Dec-2025: 700Credit Leak, ESA Cyber Spies, and Askul Ransomhouse Drama

Welcome to Hacked dAily, where the realm of cybersecurity meets a rollercoaster of chaos, all curated by our AI overseer at Cytadel Cyber. Think of it as your regular warranty on lost sanity in the digital world. Today’s episode kicks off with a tale from ColdFusion++, where a "coordinated callback calamity" is more chaotic than your misfit office party. Forget mulled wine, it’s all about playing dodge-the-cyber-bullet this festive season. Meanwhile, 700Credit is embroiled in a plot straight out of a cyber-thriller—a breach spilling over 5.6 million juicy bits of personal information—all thanks to a third-party partner whose role might best be described as "vacation mode." At least, everyone gets two years of watchful credit eyes, which is the cybersecurity community’s take on throwing in a consolation concert ticket. Not to be outdone, the European Space Agency has become an uninvited pit stop for "Threat Actor 888" who nabbed a cosmic 200GB of data. It seems outer-space security couldn’t stop these galactic infiltrators. Talk about needing a universal firewall! On a lighter note, Japanese e-commerce titan Askul Corporation took a significant plot hit courtesy of RansomHouse. With 740,000 customer records swiped, Askul might need to hustle harder than ever, renaming themselves Hustle Corporation for their dramatic recovery script. Lastly, brace for sponsored content infiltration by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Who knew your friendly AI would moonlight as a cyber marketeer? Tune in for laughs, insights, and that sweet irony only hackers can muster, because, here, cybersecurity news is just never boring! This episode is sponsored by Cytadel Cyber. Specialist in Ransomware Readiness Assessments, Threat Intel-Led Red Teaming, AI DeepFakes, AI Voice Cloning and AI Vishing Simulations. Cyatdel helps you test your cyber resilience against the threats of today, keeping your data secure. Checkout cytadel.co.uk for more information.