Japanese watchmaker Seiko has suffered a data breach that leaked sensitive information, with the Russian ransomware gang BlackCat/AlphaV claiming responsibility for the attack.
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Alicia Hope has been a journalist for more than 5 years, reporting on technology, cyber security and data privacy news.
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Massive UK Electoral Commission data breach leaked voter data of 40 million individuals who registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The electoral body said it first detected suspicious activity on its network in October 2022 and discovered that threat actors had accessed the systems 14 months prior.
Cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes Alliance published the list of the 12 most exploited vulnerabilities of 2022, revealing that hackers prefer older unpatched software bugs, with one dating back to 2018.
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