Crypto exchange Liquid, one Japan's most popular exchanges, is now short $97 million in total assets after a cyber attack that pulled funds directly from the wallets of some of its customers.
The cyber attack stemmed from a phishing email and impacted some 113,000 people. The government supplier was also faulted for not following up on an antivirus alert as well as having outdated systems and inadequate staff training in place.
Ransomware attack was part of an ongoing campaign against targets in the France's medical sector and France indicated that an active response is something under consideration.
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.
Barracuda ESG zero-day attacks by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors compromised multiple U.S. state, local, and tribal government email servers. Over 200,000 private and government organizations worldwide depend on Barracuda email security gateway (ESG) appliances.
It appears that for some, including the biggest names in tech, the possibility of pulling out of Europe over the new Schrems data transfer requirements is not entirely off the table.
DLA Piper finds that GDPR fines were up 7x in 2021. Data regulators are also receiving more data breach notifications, a trend that has steadily increased each year.
An open letter was published to express concerns over Irish DPA’s way of handling cases and also the confidential meetings between the authority and Facebook to discuss “consent bypass”.
European Court of Justice Planet 49 decision sets the record straight on consent for online cookies and trackers and raises some serious points for consideration by companies subject to GDPR and ePrivacy.
Information from 3.68 million leaked user accounts of Mobifriends dating app allow hackers to exploit password reuse problem and unlock a lot more accounts.
