The assessment of the damage from the recent cyber espionage campaign by Chinese hackers has now been revised and greatly expanded, with more senior officials and ambassadors confirmed to have been targeted and potentially "hundreds of thousands" of email accounts breached.
Two prolific ransomware gangs have breached cosmetics giant Estee Lauder at the same time and stolen information in an apparent MOVEit data breach and a confirmed cyber intrusion.
Elon Musk is asking a US District Court to put an end to the FTC privacy settlement the company has been subject to since May of last year, claiming biased investigations and misconduct.
The legal gauntlet for "generative AI" chatbots continues as OpenAI is now under FTC investigation, an action that could firm up questions about the extent to which consumer protection laws apply to AI tools and signal the direction of future federal regulation.
By mid-2023, crypto scams plummeted the most for any crypto-related crimes, while ransomware payments approach record levels from "big game hunting" and spray and pray attacks.
German banks Deutsche Bank AG, ING, Postbank, and Commerzbank’s subsidiary Comdirect, have leaked customer data via third-party service provider MOVEit data breach.
The temporarily-delayed Google Bard is now available in the European Union, as the Irish DPC has decided that Google has provided enough information to assuage EU privacy concerns. Google Bard is adding the ability to opt out of personal data collection.
A hacker has stolen the patient info records of at least 11 million individuals in a massive HCA Healthcare data breach and leaked samples on an underground hacking forum.
The National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP) establishes 65 high-impact initiatives that agencies will be required to meet within set timelines for each. A greater degree of public-private partnership is also being promoted.
Study from Citizen Lab Toronto explores the WeChat ecosystem and finds that data sharing can exceed what the user expects, and that the privacy policy does not always make the extent of this sharing clear.










