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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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Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks Have Tripled, But Nearly All Vulnerabilities Are Avoidable by Updating

October 17, 2023

Software supply chain attacks have spiked significantly year-over-year. Sonatype logged over 245,032 malicious packages in open source projects available to public download in 2023, double the number seen from 2019 to 2022. In total, one in eight open source downloads poses a risk.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities Take Four Years to Spot, Says GitHub

December 15, 2020

GitHub's State of the Octoverse report has found that open source vulnerabilities are continuing to go undetected for as long as four years on average and developers have an average patch time of roughly a month.

Exclamation alarm on smartphone showing ChatGPT outage due to DDoS Attack

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OpenAI Attributes ChatGPT Outages to a DDoS Attack Claimed by a Russian Hacktivist Group

November 15, 2023

OpenAI has attributed ChatGPT outages to a targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A suspected Russian hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility.

ChatGPT on phone showing ChatGPT conversations indexed by search engines

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OpenAI Blocks ChatGPT Conversations From Indexing by Search Engines

August 11, 2025

What OpenAI described as a "short-lived experiment" is now over, as the company will no longer allow Google and other search engines to index certain types of ChatGPT conversations.

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OpenAI Complaint Filed With Polish DPA Alleges Multiple GDPR Violations

September 5, 2023

A complaint in Poland alleges GDPR violations by ChatGPT in the areas of lawful basis for data processing, data access, fairness, transparency and personal privacy.

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OpenAI Hit With €15 Million GDPR Fine in Italy Over Data Privacy Violations

December 31, 2024

Italy was one of the first EU nations to take OpenAI and ChatGPT to task over data privacy violations, even banning the app from the country briefly, and it has now issued the bloc's first GDPR fine of this nature to the company.

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OpenAI Invokes Chinese Competition in Call for Lighter AI Regulations

March 18, 2025

The Trump administration's "AI Action Plan" will likely shape every aspect of AI development going forward, and OpenAI has submitted its own set of proposals to the White House, one that unsurprisingly calls for light AI regulations.

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OpenAI Shifts EU Data Privacy Responsibility to Dublin Office

January 10, 2024

A recent change to its EU terms of service and an email sent out to some ChatGPT users indicates that OpenAI is now formally under the watch of the Irish DPC in terms of its responsibility to EU data privacy regulations.

Hacker working on a computer showing AI tools used by foreign adversaries

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OpenAI: Foreign Adversaries Using Multiple AI Tools to Optimize Existing Hacking Approaches

October 13, 2025

Both suspected state-backed foreign adversaries and more run-of-the-mill cyber criminals appear to mostly still be focused on using AI tools to make their existing operations faster, more efficient and more error-free. OpenAI's ChatGPT and other models appear to have fairly strong guardrails that are highly resistant to creation of malware or automation of attack operations.

Screen with ChatGPT showing claim NYT hacked ChatGPT in copyright lawsuit

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OpenAI’s Defense in Copyright Lawsuit: New York Times “Hacked ChatGPT” To Create Evidence

March 4, 2024

OpenAI is facing a number of copyright lawsuits that could shape the future of generative AI, and one of the biggest comes from the New York Times. OpenAI is now accusing the paper of what is essentially evidence fabrication, claiming that it hacked ChatGPT to produce results containing content from its articles.

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Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks Have Tripled, But Nearly All Vulnerabilities Are Avoidable by Updating

Open Source Vulnerabilities Take Four Years to Spot, Says GitHub

OpenAI Attributes ChatGPT Outages to a DDoS Attack Claimed by a Russian Hacktivist Group

OpenAI Blocks ChatGPT Conversations From Indexing by Search Engines

OpenAI Invokes Chinese Competition in Call for Lighter AI Regulations

OpenAI: Foreign Adversaries Using Multiple AI Tools to Optimize Existing Hacking Approaches

OpenAI’s Defense in Copyright Lawsuit: New York Times “Hacked ChatGPT” To Create Evidence

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