No joke, folks -- time for the litany of the hacked! The litany of the hacked is our listing for each known/reported hack in the previous month. The point of the litany is not shame but awareness-raising that, well, these sorts of things happen. And so, the litany of the hacked for March 2026. Unfortunately we have a lot of new members of the litany, and to a significant extent this happened because of military actions in the Persian Gulf. You can be positive that there is no reason to think that cybersecurity is going to get easier from here on out. As Megi Benia puts it on her blog: Deterrence assumes identifiable actors, clear intent, and thresholds that trigger response. Iran’s use of ransomware deliberately undermines all three: - Attribution is blurred through proxies and criminal partnerships - Intent is dual-use, combining profit, disruption, and signaling - Activity remains below the threshold of armed attack The implication is not just tactical but strategic. If ransomware c...