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Latest news on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory developments, data breaches and enforcement actions happening around the world.

Disney store window showing data leak of Slack messaging

Cyber Security News

Hacktivists Claim Disney Data Leak Was Protest Against AI Art; One Terabyte of Internal Slack Messaging Chats Stolen and Leaked

July 19, 2024

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.

Close up hand of cybercriminal downloading data from Marriot data breach while holding an opened lock and key

Cyber Security News

Half a Billion Guests Affected by Massive Marriott Data Breach

December 3, 2018

Marriott has put half a billion guest at risk in one of the largest data breach to date. The scope of the data breach is not only startling due to the numbers of guests that have been affected, it is the sheer amount of time since 2014 that the hackers had had access to the data.

Zoom application icon on mobile showing the half a million Zoom accounts compromised by credential stuffing

Cyber Security News

Half a Million Zoom Accounts Compromised by Credential Stuffing, Sold on Dark Web

April 27, 2020

530,000 Zoom accounts selling on dark web appear to be compromised by credential stuffing, using username and password combinations obtained from past breaches of other companies.

Laptop with coffee cup and open book on table showing how remote working has led to increased security incidents

Cyber Security News

Half of All Organizations Experienced Cyber Security Incidents During the Remote Working Period

October 5, 2020

Study showed that 75% of IT decision-makers believed hybrid or remote working to be the future of the workplace, and most also believed that this has led to an increase in security incidents.

Man keeping his wallet in pocket showing half of Americans refusing to make purchases due to privacy concerns

Data Privacy News

Half of Americans Refuse to Make Purchases Due to Privacy Concerns

April 28, 2020

Survey shows 52% of Americans would not buy a product or service because of privacy concerns, especially those who had fallen victim to a data breach before.

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Cyber Security News

Half of Organizations Suffered Attacks From Repeat Hackers While Most Failed To Utilize Their Threat Hunting Teams

August 13, 2021

State of Threat Hunting report says half of organizations suffered cyber attacks from repeat hackers after failing to resolve a previous compromise or defend against new attacks.

Facial recognition technology on people showing EU NGOs calling a ban on biometric surveillance

Data Privacy News

Halt Mass Collection of Biometric Data Say NGOs

May 25, 2020

Civil society organizations across the EU have called for a ban on biometric surveillance in public spaces as it violates people’s privacy, fundamental freedoms and dignity.

Woman using Zoom application on mobile phone showing GDPR violation for data transfers

Data Protection News

Hamburg DPA Says Zoom Is Not Compliant With GDPR Due to U.S. Data Transfers, No Longer Allowed for State Government Agencies

August 26, 2021

Germany's data protection authority has determined that Zoom's data transfers to the U.S. are in violation of the terms of the GDPR in light of the Schrems II ruling, and has issued a formal warning.

Fleet of commercial lorry trucks in row showing vehicle GPS tracker with hard-coded password vulnerabilities

Cyber Security News

Hard-coded Password in Popular Vehicle GPS Tracker Allows for User Impersonation, Remote Execution of Commands

July 26, 2022

MiCODUS MV720 vehicle GPS tracker has sold some 1.5 million units across 169 countries and used in military vehicles, government cars, etc. Of the six serious vulnerabilities, one is a hard-coded password that allows anyone to send commands to the GPS units.

Bitcoinsin leather wallet showing third party data breach of crypto wallet

Cyber Security News

Hardware Crypto Wallet Ledger Hit by a Third-Party Data Breach, Exposing Customer PII

January 21, 2026

Crypto wallet Legder was hit by a third-party data breach stemming from an external payment processor, Global-e, exposing the personal information of some customers.

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Hacktivists Claim Disney Data Leak Was Protest Against AI Art; One Terabyte of Internal Slack Messaging Chats Stolen and Leaked

Half a Billion Guests Affected by Massive Marriott Data Breach

Half a Million Zoom Accounts Compromised by Credential Stuffing, Sold on Dark Web

Half of All Organizations Experienced Cyber Security Incidents During the Remote Working Period

Half of Americans Refuse to Make Purchases Due to Privacy Concerns

Half of Organizations Suffered Attacks From Repeat Hackers While Most Failed To Utilize Their Threat Hunting Teams

Halt Mass Collection of Biometric Data Say NGOs

Hard-coded Password in Popular Vehicle GPS Tracker Allows for User Impersonation, Remote Execution of Commands

Hardware Crypto Wallet Ledger Hit by a Third-Party Data Breach, Exposing Customer PII

Self-Propagating Malware ChainDrop Hits Over 400 NPM Packages in Massive Supply Chain Attack

Russian Hackers Exploit Hotel Wi-Fi Networks to Compromise Microsoft 365 Accounts

Claude’s Great Escape: Anthropic AI Models Join OpenAI Agents in Hacking Their Way Out of Sandboxes

Leak of Microsoft Meeting Documents Indicates Company Is Struggling to Keep Up With Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Mythos