Amazon was penalized for excessive employee monitoring, insufficient data minimization, and failing to meet transparency and security requirements. Much of the GDPR fine centers on the hand scanners that are issued to warehouse employees.
One of the world's largest adtech companies is facing a €40 million GDPR fine over failure to collect proper consent for personal information processing. Criteo's targeted advertising program was also cited for transparency and right of access shortcomings.
Underage Instagram users were opting to ignore privacy settings and work around them by opening business accounts, leading to a GDPR fine of €405 Million by the Irish DPC.
A complaint about the company's data access request process is set to cost Spotify €5 million in fines, though it took four years of wrangling to determine that a GDPR violation took place.
A dark web marketplace calling itself "BidenCash" is attempting to establish itself by giving away 1.2 million stolen credit cards, but security researchers believe most are already invalid.
1.6 million unemployment claimants in Washington may have just received an identity theft headache. A hack of the State Auditor's office has exposed extremely sensitive personal information.
Google's Threat Analysis Group has announced it is providing free USB security keys to a collection of politicians, activists and other high-risk individuals likely to be targeted by nation-state hackers.
Massive data leak (handed over to German business newspaper Handelsblatt) reportedly contains troves of customer payment information, employee personal information, and customer safety complaints about the automated driving functions of Tesla vehicles.
Encryption vulnerability renders Samsung phones in the Galaxy line from 2017 to 2021 completely insecure, at least until they are updated to security patches from July 2021 and beyond.
Hackers are exploiting a 12-year-old router vulnerability existing in the Arcadyan firmware, potentially affecting millions of devices on home and corporate networks, and exposing serious supply chain risks.
