The Irish DPC has opened an EU-wide investigation into the EU's biggest budget carrier, questioning whether its use of facial recognition to verify the identities of passengers that booked through third-party sites is compliant with GDPR terms.
French news agency AFP has suffered a cyber attack affecting its content delivery systems, hot on the heels of a sustained Russian onslaught on the country's critical infrastructure.
Chinese hackers may have had illicit access to a federal surveillance system for months before being discovered and rousted. The access was apparently gained by compromising US telecoms Verizon and AT&T.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland was slapped with a hefty ICO fine for a preventable data leak that exposed the personal information of its officers and staff.
The CRI guidance does not really focus on whether or not to make ransomware payments, instead stressing that victims should make early contact with law enforcement (regardless of their ultimate decision) and that they have many options to explore.
Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have seized over 100 domains used by Kremlin-backed Russian hackers Star Blizzard for cyber espionage against the West.
T-Mobile has seemingly had annual data breaches since 2018, but the new FCC settlement addresses just those that took place in the post-Covid period (and that involved the largest total count of customer records).
A 2019 incident in which user passwords were inadvertently stored in plaintext has netted a €91 million GDPR fine for Meta from Ireland's DPC, though access to the password storage was limited to Meta workers on an internal company network.
Over 100 million Americans have their sensitive personal information exposed in a massive data leak affecting the background check services company MC2 Data.
A water treatment facility in the City of Arkansas, Kansas, has suffered a suspected ransomware cyber attack, highlighting the persistent threat facing U.S. water systems.
