Scott Ikeda, Senior Correspondent at CPO Magazine

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New Qantas Policy Ties Amount of Executive Bonuses to Data Breach Failures

September 10, 2025

Qantas has announced a new compensation policy that reduces executive bonuses for the CEO and their team when damaging cybersecurity incidents take place. The recent data breach will cost Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson AUD 250,000 of her expected total annual compensation of AUD 6.3 million.

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Data Protection News

Disney Reaches $10 Million FTC Settlement in YouTube Children’s Privacy Case

September 10, 2025

Disney has settled accusations of violating federal children’s privacy rules preventing the collection of personal data of internet users under the age of 13, and the outcome builds on the terms of a prior 2019 FTC settlement involving Google that set new requirements for parental consent on YouTube.

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Data Protection News

Shein Hit With €150 Million GDPR Fine Over Cookie Consent Violations

September 9, 2025

Popular "fast fashion" app Shein has landed in some regulatory trouble in the EU, as France's data regulator CNIL has issued a €150 million GDPR fine due to failure to obtain cookie consent.

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Data Protection News

France Issues €325 Million GDPR Fine to Google for Sneaky Cookies

September 9, 2025

Google is facing a €325 million fine from French data regulator CNIL for its placement of cookies that may not have been noticed by those signing up for new accounts and its use of ads in Gmail.

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Cyber Security News

New Round of Stolen OAuth Tokens Obtained From Salesloft Drift Platform Led to Compromise of Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks & Zscaler

September 8, 2025

An as-of-yet undiagnosed compromise of the Salesloft Drift AI-driven platform has led to a rash of stolen OAuth tokens, in turn creating downstream breaches at some of the biggest names in the cybersecurity industry.

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Cyber Security News

Hackers Manipulate Claude AI Chatbot as Part of at Least 17 Cyber Attacks

September 1, 2025

A recent campaign of cyber attacks made new and novel use of the Claude AI chatbot in scanning VPN endpoints and automating multiple portions of the attack cycle, representing another step forward in the deployment of LLMs for malicious purposes.

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Cyber Security News

Whistleblower Report Claims DOGE Uploaded Social Security Data to Vulnerable Cloud Server

September 1, 2025

A whistleblower report submitted to Congress and the Office of Special Counsel claims that DOGE employees uploaded a very sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) database to a vulnerable cloud server while auditing the agency, one that contains Social Security numbers for 300 million Americans as well as associated identity information.

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Data Protection News

Otter Privacy Lawsuit Accuses AI Notetaker of Training on Guest Participants in Company Meetings

August 28, 2025

While the Otter privacy policy makes clear that its AI notetaker service may indeed train on the voices of users while they are in meetings, the privacy lawsuit notes that guests without Otter accounts that can be invited to these meetings have not been similarly notified or opted in.

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Cyber Security News

UK Government Drops Apple Encryption Backdoor Plans After Consultation With US Leaders

August 25, 2025

The UK government has dropped its controversial plan to mandate an encryption backdoor into Apple's cloud storage systems, according to a statement by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Cyber Security News

Researchers Able to Abuse Lenovo’s “People-Pleasing” AI Chatbot

August 21, 2025

Lenovo’s Lena is a fairly standard AI chatbot of the type seen at some company websites, offering to retrieve product information and answer customer service questions for visitors. What is different about this one is the relative ease with which it could be recruited for highly damaging actions.