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The Play ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on the Belgium city of Antwerp. Last week, Digipolis, the IT company responsible for managing Antwerp's IT systems, suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted the city's IT, email, and phone services.

The city of Antwerp, Belgium, is working to restore its digital services that were disrupted last night by a cyberattack on its digital provider. The disruption has affected services used by citizens, schools, daycare centers, and the police, which have been working intermittently today.

The City of Tucson, Arizona, has disclosed a data breach affecting the personal information of more than 125,000 individuals.As revealed in a notice of data breach sent to affected people, an attacker breached the city's network and exfiltrated an undisclosed number of files containing sensitive information.

A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report shared by security firm CloudSEK with The Hacker News.