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Casinos Austria said hackers stole personal data belonging to around 150,000 customers after breaching the company's webshop through an external service provider, Austrian media reported on 8 November. The company said the security gap had been closed and that bank and card details were not affected because they are not stored; exposed data may include names, email addresses, order histories and voucher codes, and customers were warned of a heightened risk of phishing and identity fraud.
Earlier, a 10-year-old girl in Austria's Amstetten district was slightly hurt by a needle hidden in Halloween sweets, one of at least seven tampered-candy cases reported across Styria, Upper Austria and Lower Austria since the weekend of 1 November. An 11-year-old girl in Vöcklabruck bit into a needle-containing sweet but was not injured; Austria's Bundeskriminalamt has not confirmed a link between the cases but is coordinating the investigation with German police, where more than 20 similar cases have been reported.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 2 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 1 verified story on Austria in the past seven days. The most recent, updated 8 November 2026: Casinos Austria cyberattack exposes data of 150,000 customers.
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Hackers stole personal data belonging to around 150,000 Casinos Austria customers through a breach at an external service provider, the company said.
2 independent sources · 54% confidenceA 10-year-old girl was slightly hurt by a needle hidden in Halloween sweets in Austria's Amstetten district, as police investigate at least seven tampered-candy cases across three provinces.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceA 39-year-old man died after driving the wrong way on a main road in Wels, Austria, early on Sunday and colliding head-on with another car.
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4 independent sources · 97% confidenceA truck rammed a tram in Linz, Austria, derailing it and injuring 5 people, including both drivers, and closing a main road for more than an hour.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceTwo freight trains carrying cars collided and caught fire at the Wien-Kledering marshalling yard near Schwechat on Tuesday evening; no one was hurt and tracks stayed shut the next morning.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceA brief power outage affected about 19,000 households in eastern Innsbruck on Tuesday, caused by an automatic safety shutdown, the utility said.
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2 independent sources · 69% confidenceA light aircraft veered off course during takeoff at Krimml in Austria's Salzburg province on Sunday, colliding with four parked planes.
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2 independent sources · 54% confidence