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Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU Facebook users
Another big monetary penalty for Meta. Well, it would be big for most of us, but…. TechCrunch reports: Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users, which the company disclosed back in September 2018. The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland’s […]
Washington AG Ferguson files lawsuit against T-Mobile for massive data breach
In September 2024, T-Mobile settled Federal Communications Commission charges stemming from four data breaches. Details of the four breaches, including a 2021 incident, were included in the consent decree. To settle the FCC’s investigations, T-Mobile agreed to pay a civil penalty of $15,750,000 andcommitted to spending an additional $15,750,000 over the next two years to […]
How Chinese Hackers Graduated From Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons
China’s spokespeople keep denying claims by U.S. officials, but U.S. officials have not retracted or backed off at all on their claims about Chinese espionage and cyberattacks. The Wall Street Journal reports: The message from President Biden’s national security adviser was startling. Chinese hackers had gained the ability to shut down dozens of U.S. ports, […]
Tick Tock: You now have less than 30 days from discovery of a breach to notify New Yorkers
New York’s Governor Hochul signed two bills into law in December that modify New York’s breach notification law. One that has already gone into effect replaces the “in the most expedient time” type of language with an actual deadline of 30 days from discovery of a breach but retains an exception for the legitimate needs […]
Apple agrees to pay US$95 million to settle Siri eavesdropping lawsuit
Siri may have sounded benevolent, but was she really recording you without your knowledge or consent and then sharing what she learned? Agence France-Press reports: Apple has agreed to pay US$95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing its digital assistant Siri of listening in on users’ private conversations. The proposed settlement filed in an Oakland, California, […]
Cybercriminals leak stolen data of Rhode Island’s HHS divisions
There’s another update to the situation in Rhode Island, where threat actors called Brain Cipher managed to acquire data from the RIBridges portal that handles certain public services such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid benefits, and health insurance through the state’s marketplace for coverage. The state continues to update its cyber-alert page about […]
Treasury Says Chinese Hackers Remotely Accessed Several Workstations And Unclassified Documents
The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Treasury Department has described remote access by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to workstations and unclassified documents as a “major cybersecurity incident.” The Treasury Department said it learned of the latest problem on Dec. 8, when a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, flagged that hackers had stolen a key “used […]
Brothel Visits Exposed In Volkswagen Location Data Leak
There are breaches and then there are really really embarrassing breaches. Jalopnik reports: Things aren’t going so great at Volkswagen right now, and while the latest scandal likely won’t rise to the level of the diesel emissions scandal, a security lapse by VW’s in-house software developer Cariad did expose the locations of about 800,000 electric vehicles to […]