Customers affected by an Azure outage on July 30 were likely trying to access it during a newly confirmed DDoS attack, which Microsoft says was exacerbated by an error in the implementation of their automated defense systems.
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Meta allegedly violated Texas’ CUBI and the Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act in capturing and profiting from facial recognition data without obtaining required informed consent, and failing to delete this stored data after a required amount of time.
North Korean Hacker Charged for 2022 Ransomware Attacks on US Hospitals, Data Theft From US Military
A North Korean hacker responsible for a trail of massive damage to hospitals and the US military has been unmasked, as a federal grand jury has indicted Rim Jong Hyok in a 2022 string of thefts of data from the US government and ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector.
Meta is facing a $220 million fine in Nigeria under data protection laws passed in 2023, the first major fine for the company in the region. The fine follows an extensive investigation that lasted 38 months, dating back to well before the current Data Protection Act was signed into law.
The consumer privacy lawsuit alleged that Oracle made $42.5 billion annually by surreptitiously creating "dossiers" on millions of people that it sold off to both private and government parties.
Meta has suspended its generative AI tools in Brazil indefinitely as it seeks talks with ANPD about the issue. ANPD has said that Meta must change its privacy policy to exclude a section related to the processing of personal data for generative AI training.
An April data breach of prescription provider MediSecure has been confirmed to have exposed about 12.9 million records, making it one of the largest in Australian history.
Massive leak of Disney's internal Slack messaging conversations appears to be the work of hacktivists looking to shine a light on the use of AI art to replace creative workers. The hackers, who go by the name "NullBulge," have yet to request any ransom and immediately began dumping portions of the data leak to publicly available channels.
This is a password leak compilation largely built on massive breaches of the recent past. The 1.5 billion passwords added since the last RockYou edition appear to all be from breaches that took place from 2021 to 2024.
AT&T customer records of calls and texts were taken from 110 customers, and the data breach may be an offshoot of the ongoing fallout from the Snowflake storage compromise that took place in April.
