Japanese minimalist retailer Muji was forced to shut down its online stores after a ransomware attack hit its logistics partner, Askul, resulting in order cancelations.
The new CSC report warns that national cyber defense is "stalling" in most areas and "slipping" in some. Its central point of criticism is that only 35% of 82 recommendations that the commission made in 2020 have been fully implemented, with about 13% still facing barriers to progress and another 18% making progress but still distant from actual implementation.
Credit rating agency Experian's Netherlands branch has been assessed a €2.7 million (about $3.2 million) GDPR fine for improper collection of personal data, which was drawn from multiple public and private sources that data subjects were not necessarily aware of.
Europol has dismantled a large-scale SIM farm operation, arresting seven suspects and seizing 1,200 SIM-box devices containing 40,000 SIM cards registered across 80 countries.
RIP Google Privacy Sandbox: “Cookie Replacement” Project Officially Terminated Due to “Low Adoption”
Google's blog post on the subject simply announced that the 10 remaining available Privacy Sandbox APIs and tools were being deprecated, but follow-up questioning by various tech media sources produced statements confirming that it is all over for the project.
Popular lending platform Prosper Marketplace has disclosed a significant data breach that leaked the sensitive personal and financial information of more than 17.6 million people.
International auction house Sotheby’s has disclosed a data breach that leaked sensitive personal details, including financial information and Social Security Numbers.
The AWS outage that caused widespread global disruption for about half of Monday has officially been resolved, but numerous lingering issues remain that could take days or even weeks to fully resolve.
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.
Spanish multinational fashion retailer MANGO has recently experienced a third-party data breach that exposed customer information from a marketing partner.
