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In June, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) disclosed that a vendor running its hunting and fishing license system had been compromised, potentially exposing personal data belonging to more than three million people. Weeks earlier, Carnival Corporation confirmed that an attacker had socially engineered an employee into granting access to part of its IT environment, affecting close to six million individuals. Different sectors. Different attack paths.

Every time a cyber breach breaks headlines, leadership teams pose the same urgent question: Does this affect us? But a third-party risk team is likely already asking: Was one of our vendors, suppliers, partners, or other third parties involved? And increasingly: What if it was not our direct vendor, but one of theirs?

Medtronic Plc is an American-Irish medical device company founded in 1949. As one of the largest medical device companies in the world and with over 90,000 employees, the company operates in about 150 countries. Its products treat 70 health conditions, helping an estimated 75 million people globally every year. Earlier in 2026, the company was the victim of a cybersecurity incident that impacted some of its corporate IT systems.

A massive public health system hardened its own network for years — and was still undone by a third-party vendor with weaker controls.

Although customer password vaults were not affected, LastPass confirmed that customer information was exposed when cybercriminals compromised a third-party market intelligence platform in June 2026. This is not the first time LastPass customers have had their information put at risk; LastPass’s major 2022 breach involved cybercriminals stealing backups of customer vault data.

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark with production facilities in two other countries. Founded in 1923, the company provides access to diabetes and obesity care products alongside treatments for rare blood and endocrine diseases in about 170 countries.

In Bitsight’s annual State of the Underground report we discuss cyber threat trends, key players, attack vectors, and why it all matters. The key theme from the 2026 State of the Underground is that cyber risk is changing as we know it. We are starting to see threat actors pivot alongside the changing threat landscape. We also explored how the threat landscape is reacting to the ever-growing changes brought on by AI.