Last month, Latitude Group Holdings, an Australian consumer finance company, faced a massive cyberattack that resulted in criminals obtaining 14 million customer records, which included driver's licenses, passports, and financial statements. The cybercriminals have since demanded ransom, but the
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The UK's national law enforcement agency responsible for managing criminal record information, the Criminal Records Office (ACRO), has confirmed that a cyber security incident has been the cause of its online portal issues since March 21st. After delaying issuing a comment on the matter, ACRO
The FBI, in cooperation with international law enforcement agencies, have successfully seized Genesis Market, a notorious hacker marketplace, in an operation dubbed "Operation Cookie Monster". The operation took place on April 4th, involving law enforcement agencies from the United States,
Alcohol recovery services, Monument and Tempest, have admitted to sharing patients’ private information with advertisers for several years without their consent. Monument disclosed in a filing with the California Attorney General that the tracking tools on their websites may have inadvertently
On Tuesday, Britain's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a £12.7 million fine against TikTok for using the personal data of children under 13 without parental consent. The ICO estimated that in 2020, TikTok allowed up to 1.4 million UK children under 13 to access its platform, despite
On Friday, March 31st, Italy temporarily banned ChatGPT, becoming the first Western country to do so. A statement by the Italian data protection authority, GPDP, confirmed the ban and that it is launching an investigation into the company, stating "there appears to be no legal basis underpinning
The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP), a non-profit AI research group, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against OpenAI, calling for an investigation into the release of GPT-4 and halting its deployment. In its complaint, the group claims that
The database also contained images of users, credit cards, passports and other forms of identification. Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, has recently reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained over 600,000 records. Upon further investigation it became
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is the latest of many companies to disclose that they were affected by a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere file-sharing solution. This resulted in a breach in early February that exposed the personal information of an unknown number of its employees. In a
The effects of the mass ransomware attack carried out via Fortra’s GoAnywhere file transfer tool continue to escalate. This time, the victim was a virtual mental healthcare startup aimed at children called Brightline. The data of more than 63,000 patients is assumed to have been stolen. The