Discord's controversial new age verification requirements will be delayed until at least the latter half of 2026, after the sudden announcement of mandatory collection of user ID scans and facial biometrics drew a major backlash from platform users.
A third-party data breach has leaked personal information, including government IDs, from the messaging app Discord after threat actors breached a customer support vendor.
The REvil ransomware has become something of a cybersecurity household name but it may be losing some business now that a disgruntled former client has leaked code demonstrating that the group can backdoor its own customers.
Disney has settled accusations of violating federal children’s privacy rules preventing the collection of personal data of internet users under the age of 13, and the outcome builds on the terms of a prior 2019 FTC settlement involving Google that set new requirements for parental consent on YouTube.
Source code leak of software belonging to over 50 high profile companies was made available online due to misconfiguration of their software development platforms.
An account takeover hit Disneyland's Facebook and Instagram, and the company took some of its social media presence offline for a short period as it recovered.
With a total of €2.92 billion levied throughout the bloc in 2022, GDPR fines are up in spite of a small drop in the overall data breach count as the bloc eyes stronger regulation for AI.
DNA testing firm said the data breach exposed personal and financial data of 2.1 million people, and hackers removed some files from the national genetic testing organization system database.
Recent survey of 2,000 international consumers suggests that companies unify and modernize identity authentication processes to avoid a mass exodus of customers.
Rogue Meta employees and contractors abused an internal tool called "Oops," which is primarily intended for in-house account recovery for employees and business partners. There were some cases of account hijacking for money.
