Neopets virtual pet website suffered a data breach that allowed hackers to access the platform's source code and personal information of 69 million users. Hacker continues to maintain access after confirmed data breach.
A probe has discovered that surveillance footage from Amazon's Ring devices is being provided to law enforcement agencies without warrants or the consent (or knowledge) of device owners.
A new ordinance currently under consideration would give the SFPD real-time access to the video feeds of private businesses and residential cameras, access that could be granted without a warrant.
Researchers found that although 80% of financial institutions suffered data breaches per year from vulnerabilities in their authentication methods, 64% refused to upgrade.
Researchers warn that financial institutions must innovate to prevent online payment fraud losses, which are expected to exceed $343 billion between 2023 and 2027.
Regardless of the motivation of the Delhi police, the handover of donor payment data has put India's lack of a national data privacy law and its speech laws in the spotlight.
Data breach on the US federal courts record systems involved "three foreign hostile actors" and the attack was "startling in breadth and scope" and may have had a "staggering" impact on the Department of Justice.
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.
Details of UK’s data protection reform plans are solidifying with the release of the first public version of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPDIB), which is accompanied with a set of new proposals for AI regulation.
Mozilla's study finds that iOS and Safari privacy is not enhanced for end users when Private Click Management is enabled, and a small number of users can still be tracked across sites if the advertiser desires.
