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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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Recently Discovered SAP Bug Allows Anybody Without Technical Knowledge to Hack Business Applications

July 23, 2020

SAP bug allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain unrestricted access to SAP systems without a username or password to create new privileged users or shut down the entire system.

Man hands holding smartphone with Amazon app and laptop showing GDPR fine for targeting advertising

Data Protection News

Record GDPR Fine Handed to Amazon Over Targeted Advertising

August 4, 2021

The Luxembourg CNPD has issued Amazon the largest GDPR fine to date, hitting the online shopping giant with a penalty of €746 million (about $887 million) over its targeted advertising practices.

Security lock with a hole on computer circuit board showing zero-day vulnerabilities

Cyber Security News

Record High Number of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Numbers May Be Owed to Improved Detection Says Mandiant and Google

April 25, 2022

New studies from FireEye Mandiant Threat Intelligence and Google’s Project Zero found that 2021 was a record year for zero-day vulnerabilities, more than doubling the amount seen in 2020.

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Cyber Security News

Record-Breaking Data Breaches of French Payment Providers May Impact Half of the Country’s Population

February 16, 2024

The data breach is thought to impact about 33 million people in total, or nearly half of the country's total population of about 67 million. Both of the data breach subjects are third-party payment providers for France’s medical insurance industry.

Data Privacy News

Record-Setting $5 Billion Facebook Fine Too Little Too Late?

July 24, 2019

FTC has just issued a record-setting $5 billion Facebook fine for privacy breaches from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Is the U.S. government changing the way they regulate technology companies on user privacy and data?

Hacker working on computer showing security breach affected customer data

Cyber Security News

Red Hat Confirms Security Breach in Self-Hosted GitLab Instance, Customer Data Exposed

October 7, 2025

Open-source software company Red Hat has confirmed a security breach on one of its GitLab instances after a threat actor claimed to have stolen nearly 570 GB of data from across various repositories.

Cyber Security News

Reddit Confirmed a Security Breach After a Sophisticated Phishing Attack

February 14, 2023

Reddit confirmed a security breach that allowed hackers to access internal business systems after an employee became the victim of a sophisticated phishing attack.

Lock on smartphone showing use of two-factor authentication

Cyber Security News

Reddit Hack Exposes Two-Factor Authentication Weakness

August 9, 2018

Reddit hack shows that the industry standard two-factor authentication approach in certain cases might not offer as much protection of vulnerable data as has long been thought.

Data Protection News

Reddit on the Hook for £14.47M in Children’s Privacy Fines Due To Inadequate Age Checks

March 3, 2026

Reddit has been assessed £14.47 million in fines by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) due to failures to adequately age-gate children under 13, which in turn led to impermissible collection and use of their personal data as well as potential exposure to mature content. The penalty is one of the largest it has issued thus far, and the largest for a children's privacy offense.

Data Protection News

Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Unauthorized AI Training

June 23, 2025

The Reddit suit claims that Anthropic began regularly scraping the site in December 2021. After being asked to stop, Anthropic issued a public statement in July 2024 indicating that it had stopped all crawling of Reddit for AI training data.

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Recently Discovered SAP Bug Allows Anybody Without Technical Knowledge to Hack Business Applications

Record High Number of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Numbers May Be Owed to Improved Detection Says Mandiant and Google

Record-Breaking Data Breaches of French Payment Providers May Impact Half of the Country’s Population

Record-Setting $5 Billion Facebook Fine Too Little Too Late?

Red Hat Confirms Security Breach in Self-Hosted GitLab Instance, Customer Data Exposed

Reddit Confirmed a Security Breach After a Sophisticated Phishing Attack

Reddit Hack Exposes Two-Factor Authentication Weakness

Reddit on the Hook for £14.47M in Children’s Privacy Fines Due To Inadequate Age Checks

Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Unauthorized AI Training

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