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Clorox Cyber Attack to Cause Product Shortages, Impact First Quarter Results

September 27, 2023

A cyber attack disclosed by Clorox in mid-August is now expected to negatively impact first quarter results for 2024 due to "widescale disruption" that the company is still struggling to recover from. A recent SEC filing indicates that product shortages through this period should also be expected.

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Cyber Security News

Pizza Hut Australia’s Data Breach Impacts over 190K Customers

September 26, 2023

Pizza Hut Australia has sent data breach notifications to 193,000 customers after a third party accessed a database containing personal and transactional information.

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Data Protection News

Privacy Settlement Reached in California Location Tracking Case, Google to Pay $93 Million

September 26, 2023

The California location tracking issue dates back to 2018. Over 40 states have already reached similar privacy settlements with the tech giant, with Google having now paid over $600 million in total.

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Cyber Security News

Data Leak by Microsoft AI Researchers Exposes 38TB of Private Internal Data

September 26, 2023

The data leak reportedly stems from the activity of two AI researchers, who had disk backups of their workstations exposed. This included some 30,000 messages with assorted Microsoft team members in addition to private keys, login credentials and internal secrets.

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Data Protection News

TikTok Receives €345 Million GDPR Fine in Years-Old Children’s Privacy Case

September 25, 2023

A children's privacy complaint that dates back to 2021 has resulted in a major GDPR fine for TikTok. The issue largely centers on the "Family Pairing" feature introduced in 2020 which had no real verification process ensuring that the linked parent account actually belonged to a parent.

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Cyber Security News

$70 Million Loss After Data Breach of CoinEx Crypto Exchange, Services Temporarily Suspended

September 25, 2023

Hack of crypto exchange CoinEx's hot wallets has led to a loss of about $70 million in assorted asset types. The data breach was reportedly caused by compromised private keys suspected to be stolen by North Korea's Lazarus group.

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Cyber Security News

Greater Manchester Police Investigating a Third-Party Data Breach From a Ransomware Attack

September 21, 2023

A third-party data breach has exposed the personal data of UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers and staff. Company that produces GMP’s staff ID cards was affected by a ransomware attack.

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Cyber Security News

Iranian Hackers Use Password Spray Attacks to Compromise Defense Organizations, Pharmaceutical Firms

September 21, 2023

A recent campaign by Iranian hackers has been very successful in using password spray attacks to breach high-value targets, with a particular focus on defense organizations and satellites as well as pharmaceutical company research.

Jet engine from Airbus showing data breach involving compromised account

Cyber Security News

Airbus Data Breach from a Partner Airline’s Compromised Account Leaks Confidential Information

September 20, 2023

Airbus has confirmed a data breach that exposed confidential business information via a partner airline’s compromised account. Threat actors compromised a Turkish Airlines employee account using the Redline info-stealer malware in August 2023.

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Data Privacy News

Investigation Finds Elon Musk May Have Violated FTC Order With Failure to Conduct Required Privacy and Security Review for “Twitter Blue”

September 20, 2023

A government investigation of Elon Musk's tenure as leader of Twitter has determined that there may be violations of a 2022 FTC order that required certain privacy and security measures be implemented.

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