Vilius Petkauskas

Vilius Petkauskas

Deputy Editor

Vilius Petkauskas is the deputy editor at Cybernews, covering information security, data breaches, ransomware, and cybercrime. With 13 years of journalism experience, he specializes in investigating large-scale data breaches and explaining how cybercriminals operate. Before joining Cybernews, Vilius worked as an economics and politics journalist at IQ magazine and as a journalist and fact-checker at 15min.lt. His work has been cited by Forbes, Fox, Time, and the Guardian.

NextCloud data leak — SECURITY

European cloud provider Nextcloud leaks 367K records, exposing staff and clients

Claude with a hacker hacking — SECURITY

Hacker employs Claude to breach booking firms, leaves millions of records publicly accessible

24 billion records data leak — SECURITY

24 billion records, including usernames and passwords, exposed in colossal data leak: What does that mean for you?

council of europe — SECURITY

Hackers claim massive Council of Europe breach: troves of personal data exposed

new york knicks — SECURITY

Was New York Knicks owner breached? ShinyHunters say so

ralph lauren breach — SECURITY

Hacker group boasts about Ralph Lauren data breach: 220GB allegedly stolen

chrome ad blocker — SECURITY

Chrome update will soon disable adblockers for good

SECURITY

ServiceNow “data breach” attributed to researcher activity

ocupid data hacker forum — SECURITY

Data from 35M OkCupid users leaked online, hackers claim everyone’s exposed

yoti gamer privacy — PRIVACY

GrapheneOS says “fearmongering” over Sony age verification partner flagging users is suspicious