The EU-US data transfer decision at least grants a reprieve for big tech platforms that are built on targeted advertising such as Meta and Google, which are already under regulatory fire on multiple fronts.
A Bangladeshi government website data leak has exposed the personal information of millions of eGovernment portal users. Security researcher discovered the leaked database while Googling an SQL error.
Meta has now lost that case in the EU's highest court, opening the door for other antitrust law investigations in the bloc to incorporate data privacy violations and frame them as part of a systemic abuse of market position.
Over 34 million Indonesian passports were leaked in a massive data breach impacting the country’s Immigration Directorate General. Allegedly stolen 4GB of passport data is currently selling for $10,000.
A member of a hacker forum claims that they have stolen Razer's "keys to the kingdom" in the form of source code, encryption keys and employee credentials, and is looking for a $100,000 Monero payout. Razer has yet to confirm the data breach.
The Japanese port of Nagoya suffered a ransomware attack that impacted the central computer system and disrupted cargo operations, causing temporary congestion. LockBit 3.0 has claimed responsibility.
EU data protection authorities are increasingly taking the position that the internal data that Google itself receives from the Google Analytics tool is in violation of GDPR terms. Sweden's data protection authority is indicating that it might be the next one in line to ban it.
Privacy concerns may be getting lost in the stampede to find a 'better Twitter,' as researchers warn that Meta's new app collects much more sensitive personal information than comparable platforms.
Deloitte foresees a collection of privacy enhancing technologies battling to become a new ad tech standard that ensures compliance with evolving global data protection regulations while reducing a seemingly inevitable blow to revenues as much as possible.
In addition to the DDoS campaign and claimed theft of Microsoft accounts, Anonymous Sudan has busied itself with a campaign of attacks against European banks as of late. Microsoft says there is no evidence of a data breach.
