Facial recognition firm Clearview AI has become the victim of a data breach after a hacker “gained unauthorized access” to the company’s entire client list, exposing for the first time the details of the organizations which work with the controversial firm.
Clearview AI will be fined £7,552,800, and has been ordered to stop collecting facial recognition data in the UK and to delete all of the data it had previously collected.
Clearview AI faces fresh legal trouble in the UK, where it may soon be fined for violation of the country's data protection laws and forced to delete any biometric data it has collected.
Clearview AI has been found to scrape the data of European citizens for its facial recognition systems and has been ordered to remove these subjects from its database. Claims it will have 100 billion facial images by the end of 2022.
Software AG, Germany's second-largest software vendor, fell victim to a Clop ransomware attack that compromised company files and employee information.
Clop ransomware has breached dozens of organizations, including the City of Toronto, Virgin Red, and Pension Protection Fund via the GoAnywhere vulnerability.
Clop ransomware gang breached 130 organizations via Fortra GoAnywhere managed file transfer tool and stole 1 million CHS Healthcare patients' records.
Clop Ransomware gang encrypted South Korean Retail Operator E-Land after secretly stealing 2 million credit card details for more than a year using a stealth POS malware.
The Clop ransomware gang compromised 50+ organizations through the Windchill and FlexPLM critical vulnerability CVE-2026-12569 and stole sensitive data, including blueprints.
A cyber attack disclosed by Clorox in mid-August is now expected to negatively impact first quarter results for 2024 due to "widescale disruption" that the company is still struggling to recover from. A recent SEC filing indicates that product shortages through this period should also be expected.










