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Meta’s Election Tools Banned in Spain Over Privacy Concerns Ahead of the European Parliament Elections

June 10, 2024

Spain's statement on privacy concerns notes that the election tools gather the name, IP address, age and gender of Facebook and Instagram users, without an indication that this much personal data could be tied to what political content voters view and interact with.

Network connections over city showing cyber attack on internet routers

Cyber Security News

2023 Cyber Attack on Midwestern ISP Disabled Over Half a Million Internet Routers

June 10, 2024

The attack has been attributed to an older remote access trojan that was able to take out 49% of the modems from the ISP's ASN, in what is believed to be a targeted cyber attack intended to cause a prolonged outage of internet routers.

Man working on laptop in dark room showing data breach of employee data

Cyber Security News

BBC Employee Data Breach Impacts 25,000 Pension Scheme Members, Current and Former Workers

June 7, 2024

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has notified the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Pensions Regulator of an employee data breach affecting 25,000 BBC Pension Scheme members.

Customer in pharmacy holding medicine bottle showing data breach at prescription management company

Cyber Security News

Prescription Management Company Sav-Rx’s Data Breach Impacts 2.8 Million Patients

June 7, 2024

Prescription management provider Sav-Rx is notifying 2.8 million individuals of a data breach impacting their personal information after an unauthorized party accessed certain non-clinical systems.

Data Privacy News

Google Database Leak Documents 6 Years of Privacy Breaches

June 7, 2024

An internal Google document not meant for public view catalogs a long string of privacy breaches previously unknown outside of the company. While each of the items in the database leak is small and deals with incidents that may have involved just one individual, there are thousands in total, spanning six years of company history.

Open lock in digital background showing Ticketmaster data breach

Cyber Security News

Hacker Claims That Snowflake Cloud Storage Was the Third Party Compromised in the Ticketmaster Data Breach

June 4, 2024

A hacker with the threat group ShinyHunters appears to have confirmed the attack to a security research firm and claims that cloud storage company Snowflake, which is used by numerous major corporations, is the source of the the Ticketmaster data breach.

Hacker stealing data from laptop showing data breach at auction house

Cyber Security News

Christie’s Auction House Confirms Data Breach after Ransomware Group Threatens to Leak Stolen Info

June 4, 2024

Auction house Christie’s is currently notifying customers of a significant data breach after the RansomHub ransomware group threatened to leak the stolen sensitive personal information.

Handcuffs on keyboard showing law enforcement operation crackdown on dropper malware and botnets

Cyber Security News

International Law Enforcement Operation Cracks Down on Some of the Biggest Dropper Malware and Botnets

June 3, 2024

A Europol-headed law enforcement operation has put a serious dent in the dropper malware ecosystem, disrupting the botnets that these dropper systems rely on to function, with over 100 servers and 2,000 domains impacted across about a dozen countries.

Large crowd of people watching concert showing Ticketmaster customer data breach

Cyber Security News

560 Million Ticketmaster Customers Impacted by Recent Data Breach, Includes Financial Information

May 31, 2024

560 million Ticketmaster customers have had personal information and possibly payment card data exposed as part of a 1.3 TB theft by the ShinyHunters hacking group. The data breach appeared on the underground hacking forum BreachForums and was put up for ransom for half a million dollars.

Red open padlock showing data breach of patient data

Cyber Security News

Pharmaceutical Giant Cencora Confirms Patient Data Breach Impacting over a Dozen Pharma Companies

May 31, 2024

U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora has disclosed that the February 2024 data breach leaked sensitive patient data, including diagnoses and medications. At least 15 pharmaceutical companies have informed over 500,000 individuals that their information was leaked.

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Meta’s Election Tools Banned in Spain Over Privacy Concerns Ahead of the European Parliament Elections

2023 Cyber Attack on Midwestern ISP Disabled Over Half a Million Internet Routers

BBC Employee Data Breach Impacts 25,000 Pension Scheme Members, Current and Former Workers

Prescription Management Company Sav-Rx’s Data Breach Impacts 2.8 Million Patients

Google Database Leak Documents 6 Years of Privacy Breaches

Hacker Claims That Snowflake Cloud Storage Was the Third Party Compromised in the Ticketmaster Data Breach

Christie’s Auction House Confirms Data Breach after Ransomware Group Threatens to Leak Stolen Info

International Law Enforcement Operation Cracks Down on Some of the Biggest Dropper Malware and Botnets

560 Million Ticketmaster Customers Impacted by Recent Data Breach, Includes Financial Information

Pharmaceutical Giant Cencora Confirms Patient Data Breach Impacting over a Dozen Pharma Companies

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People