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

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Cyber Security News

IBM 2025 Cost of Data Breach Report Centers on Mounting AI “Security Debt”

August 18, 2025

The 2025 Cost of Data Breach Report is the first major study to survey a large sampling of data breach victims about their AI access controls, so the overall security picture in this area is only just starting to come into focus. Thus far it seems fair to say that control and security are not at all keeping pace with the feverish pace of deployment of AI tools.

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Cyber Security News

IBM Annual Cost of Data Breach Report 2022: Record Costs Usually Passed On to Consumers, “Long Breach” Expenses Make Up Half of Total Damage

August 1, 2022

The global average cost of data breach is now $4.35 million, a climb of 13% since 2020. Much of that are expenses realized more than a year after the attack, and most organizations (60%) are passing these added costs on to consumers in the form of higher prices.

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Cyber Security News

IBM Cost of Data Breach 2024: Breach Costs up 10%, With the Biggest Damage Done in Public Clouds

August 2, 2024

IBM's annual Cost of Data Breach report, created in conjunction with Ponemon Institute, shows no relief in sight for victims of breaches with a 10% jump in the global average cost on the year. The highest average cost per incident, $5.17 million, was incurred when the breached data was stored in public clouds.

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Cyber Security News

IBM Cost of Data Breach Report 2023: Costs Hit Record High, But Only About Half of Breached Companies Increase Their Security Investment

August 1, 2023

Average cost of data breach has once again hit a new record to $4.45 million, up 15.3% just from 2020. Yet only 51% of organizations that have suffered a breach plan to increase security spending.

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Cyber Security News

IBM-Ponemon Study Highlights Rising Cost of a Data Breach

August 9, 2019

Cost of a data breach is becoming more serious every year. Latest IBM-Ponemon study reports an average figure of $3.92 million which is 12% higher than it was just five years ago.

Cyber Security News

ICC Suffers Sophisticated Cyber Attack During NATO Summit

July 7, 2025

The International Criminal Court (ICC) suffered a sophisticated cyber attack coinciding with the Hague NATO summit attended by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who pushed for increased defense spending among member countries.

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Data Privacy News

iCloud Data Turned Over To Chinese Government Conflicts With Apple’s “Privacy First” Focus

May 24, 2021

Faced with unrelenting policy, Apple has reportedly turned over servers containing iCloud data to the charge of the Chinese government.

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Data Privacy News

iCloud End-to-End Encryption No Longer Available in UK After Secret Backdoor Order

February 24, 2025

As of February 21, Apple device users in the UK began seeing a notice that the iCloud end-to-end encryption feature is no longer available in their region. That stems from a secret order recently issued by the Home Office, only made known to the public due to inside sources leaking it to the media, requiring Apple to start implementing backdoor access to encrypted cloud data and to begin complying immediately.

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Cyber Security News

ICO Fines Capita £14 Million Over Data Breach That Exposed the Personal Information of 6 Million People

October 21, 2025

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined outsourcing firm Capita £14 million ($18.8M) for its alleged failure to prevent a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of people.

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Data Privacy News

ICO Flexes Its Muscles with 69% Increase in Fines for Spam and Data Breaches

February 7, 2018

UK's ICO is increasingly active in their efforts to reduce offences in anti-spam regulations and data breaches. In 2017, we witnessed an annual rise in fines of nearly 69 percent, from £2.9 to £4.9 million. A total of 104 companies has been fined a total of £8.7 million for failures since August 2015.

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IBM 2025 Cost of Data Breach Report Centers on Mounting AI “Security Debt”

IBM Annual Cost of Data Breach Report 2022: Record Costs Usually Passed On to Consumers, “Long Breach” Expenses Make Up Half of Total Damage

IBM Cost of Data Breach 2024: Breach Costs up 10%, With the Biggest Damage Done in Public Clouds

IBM Cost of Data Breach Report 2023: Costs Hit Record High, But Only About Half of Breached Companies Increase Their Security Investment

IBM-Ponemon Study Highlights Rising Cost of a Data Breach

ICC Suffers Sophisticated Cyber Attack During NATO Summit

iCloud Data Turned Over To Chinese Government Conflicts With Apple’s “Privacy First” Focus

iCloud End-to-End Encryption No Longer Available in UK After Secret Backdoor Order

ICO Fines Capita £14 Million Over Data Breach That Exposed the Personal Information of 6 Million People

ICO Flexes Its Muscles with 69% Increase in Fines for Spam and Data Breaches

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