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British DPA will rule on ‘pay or okay’ service later this year
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the data protection authority (DPA) in the United Kingdom, shall give its opinion on Meta’s ‘pay or okay’ subscription model later this year.
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Proton VPN extensions for Chromium- and Firefox-based browsers now available for free
You no longer have to pay for Proton VPN’s extensions for both Chromium- and Firefox-based web browsers. The VPN provider from Switzerland has made them available for all users.
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GM being sued for unlawfully collecting customers’ personal driving data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing General Motors (GM) for its false, deceptive, and misleading business practices.
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Russian national sentenced to 40 months in prison for selling stolen credentials
Georgy Kavzharadze, a 27-year-old Russian man, got caught selling approximately 300,000 login credentials, financial information, and other personally identifiable information (PII).
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Man sentenced for illegally collecting motorists’ personal data
Jonathan Riches, a 46-year-old United Kingdom national, has been found guilty of unlawfully accessing personal data of motorists’ details from the Enterprise Rent-A-Car database.
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Noyb: ‘Greek supermarket chain violates customers’ privacy rights with loyalty programs’
Greek supermarket chain Alfa Vita not only collects and processes a wide range of personal information of its customers, it also ignores their privacy rights. Therefore, the Austrian privacy organization Noyb has filed a complaint with the Greek data protection authority (DPA).
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FBI shuts down Radar/Dispossessor ransomware operation
The FBI, the National Crime Agency, the Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Bavarian State Criminal Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio have seized a dozen servers to shut down the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware group.
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Noyb files multiple complaints against X’s European AI training plan
Noyb wants to thwart X’s plan to train its AI technology. To do so, the Austrian privacy organization has filed complaints in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland.
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Noyb is taking Swedish DPA to court for non-compliance of GDPR
The Austrian privacy organization Noyb is suing the Swedish data protection authority IMY for refusing to properly handle complaints from its citizens.
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Evolution Mining hit by cyberattack, assailant unknown
Evolution Mining, an Australian gold mining company, was the victim of a targeted ransomware attack. As of yet, nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Hackers obtain internal documents from Trump’s presidential election campaign
A Trump campaign spokesperson confirmed that “foreign sources hostile to the United States” have hacked some of its internal communications.
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Microsoft: ‘Iranian hackers are trying to influence U.S. presidential elections’
Iranian hackers are increasing their efforts to manipulate the course and the outcome of the United States presidential elections
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ADT acknowledges recent data breach after customer data appears on the dark web
Security company ADT confirms it has suffered a data breach after a hacker leaked stolen customer data on a hacking forum on the dark web.
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Germany looking into financial damages caused by CrowdStrike outage
Germany has launched an investigation to ascertain the financial damages caused by the CrowdStrike outage.
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SEC completes investigation into MOVEit Transfer vulnerability
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has concluded its fact-finding mission into the MOVEit Transfer zero-day vulnerability. The supervisor decided not to take action against software developer Progress.
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ICO fines British IT company millions over ransomware attack
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has provisionally decided to impose a £6 million fine on Advanced Computer Software Group for failing to protect sensitive personal information of its customers.
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US judge: ‘Google created an illegal search engine monopoly’
Google has an illegal monopoly on the search engine market, leaving little to no room for competitors, as its business practices violate antitrust laws.
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DOJ and FTC are suing TikTok for violating children’s privacy
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have filed a lawsuit against TikTok.
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British authorities take down fraudulent platform Russian Coms
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down Russian Coms, an online platform used by hundreds of cybercriminals to defraud unsuspecting victims worldwide.
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Noyb sues Hamburg DPA for approving ‘pay or okay’
The Austrian privacy advocacy group Noyb is suing the data protection authority (DPA) from Hamburg for allowing the German news magazine Der Spiegel to use the ‘pay or okay’ business model for its website.
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