Attacks against healthcare institutions have become more prevalent. Driving this are several factors, including the dramatic drop in the value of stolen credit card data and the relative ease with which attackers can breach healthcare institutions.
The Irish DPC probe centers on an API vulnerability that appears to have been exploited by multiple parties before being detected and remediated. The data breach first came to light in August and was acknowledged by Twitter.
Suspects face prison sentences after hacking email accounts to access Ring cameras, initiate and live-stream swatting attacks, and threaten and taunt responding police officers.
Microsoft faces a hefty fine over Bing cookie consent issues, and has additionally been given three months to get the system into compliance or it could face additional fines of €60,000 per day.
The FBI warned that hackers are using search engine ads for phishing and spreading malware to unsuspecting users by impersonating legitimate businesses and services.
A widespread 2FA bypass attack compromised Comcast Xfinity customer email accounts and attempted to take over their Coinbase and Gemini Wallets, Evernote and Dropbox accounts.
Irish DPC has handed down a €390 million fine to Meta over its targeted advertising practices on Facebook and Instagram. The fine stems from a long legal battle over Meta's claim that users enter into an implicit contract agreeing to receive personalized ads when they accept the terms of service.
Popular collaboration tool Slack is the latest to suffer a security breach involving its GitHub repositories, with the company reporting that private source code was stolen in late December.
The CircleCI security breach leaves most of its CI/CD platform clients with a pile of time-consuming cleanup of assorted keys, tokens and variables as they are forced to immediately rotate secrets.
CNIL has hit Apple's App Store with a fine of €8 million over its ad personalization practices, taking it to task for not properly collecting consent and making the process of opting out too indirect.
