Neopets virtual pet website suffered a data breach that allowed hackers to access the platform's source code and personal information of 69 million users. Hacker continues to maintain access after confirmed data breach.
Privacy act draft proposes a maximum penalty of the greater of $50 million, three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of information stolen in data breaches, or 30% of the company's annual domestic turnover.
A controversial SDK used for location tracking remains present in hundreds of Android apps, in spite of bans. Data broker X-Mode's tracking software was forbidden from use in the world's two major app stores in 2020.
Under the new terms of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) will be examining a broad range of data collected by car manufacturers, including what the vehicle cameras capture and what is passing through their apps.
Prestige Software exposed sensitive personal and credit card information of over 10 million clients and database with 5.8 million customer records from the RedDoorz breach was put on sale.
Moltbook has been the talk of social media the past week, as its AI agent user base seemingly does everything from conspire against humanity to form new religions. But, relegated to the less sensational world of security news, a data leak has already exposed masses of API authentication tokens, private messages and email addresses.
The data leak reportedly stems from the activity of two AI researchers, who had disk backups of their workstations exposed. This included some 30,000 messages with assorted Microsoft team members in addition to private keys, login credentials and internal secrets.
Hackers published a list of 50,000 Fortinet VPN credentials stolen from vulnerable devices. A second data leak dumped sslvpn_websession files for every IP initially compromised.
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.
Vulnerability in Twitter's API in 2021 caused a data leak that exposed private user profile information of at least 5.4 million users. The information is now available for free via a dark web forum.
