Hackers published over 38,000 sensitive documents including security blueprints of heavily guarded companies after ransomware attack on a Swedish physical security firm, Gunnebo.
Hackers donated thousands of dollars in stolen Bitcoins to various charitable causes. While it's unclear what the true motives are, the donations will almost certainly be forfeit.
The 2018 Marriott data breach was one of the biggest of its type in history, and was initially looking at receiving one of the biggest fines of £99 million. However, the UK ICO has reduced the penalty to £18.4 million.
Iranian hackers impersonated Munich Security Conference and Think 20 Summit organizers to target high ranking diplomats and government officials for intelligence collection.
Recent Senate hearing on the Section 230 publishing protections that Big Tech platforms enjoy did not produce much in the way of productive results, but did formally open a federal-level dialogue.
Experian’s data broking department providing marketing analytics is in trouble with the UK ICO, requiring it to make major changes to its direct marketing services.
The advertising industry was very unhappy with the tweaks made to ad tracking systems in iOS 14 leading to a coalition of publishers and advertisers in France to initiate an antitrust complaint.
Twitter hack report reveals that employees were tricked into visiting a phishing page that captured their VPN credentials, a technique that worked due to move to remote working during the pandemic.
Nokia's Threat Intelligence Report noted an increase in IoT attacks stemming from poor security practices, the use of automated tools by attackers, and Internet visibility of devices.
The website defacement only lasted for about 30 minutes and in itself was a fairly minor incident, with the attackers posting a cryptocurrency scam reminiscent of the Twitter breach in July.
