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.
NSO Group was found to not only have exceeded its legal level of access to the WhatsApp servers and broken the terms of service with its Pegasus spyware, but to also have violated the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as California state law.
A 2018 Facebook privacy breach incident that first drew complaints just after the GDPR went into force has finally resulted in the issuance of a penalty. The €251 million GDPR fine stems from a flaw in the platform's "View All" feature.
The stolen passwords are for a MoD portal specifically designed to be used safely from home via member personal devices, but it appears the Russian hackers have been targeting the devices themselves and intercepting the credentials.
A data leak has exposed prison blueprints of numerous facilities across England and Wales, raising concerns over potential jailbreaks and weapons and drug smuggling behind bars.
The FTC placed collection bans on Mobilewalla Inc. and Gravy Analytics, both US-based data brokers that process huge amounts of information. Mobilewalla has tracking profiles on over 1.6 billion devices across more than 35 countries.
Unit 42 threat intel division has detected ongoing exploitation of Palo Alto firewalls via patched PAN-OS web interface zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474.
A ransomware attack on supply chain software firm Blue Yonder in turn hit a number of big names in food and retail with business disruptions, Starbucks and Walgreens among them. The software is widely used by a range of Fortune 500 companies.
In addition to the $25.4 million antitrust fine, the CCI has ordered Meta to cease this element of cross-app user data sharing for five years. The order wraps up a probe that began in March 2021.
A massive data breach has exposed a trove of personal information after a threat actor compromised a French hospital’s electronic...
