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How to protect personal data Partner Content For people who haven't personally experienced them, terms like data leak or data breach may seem unfamiliar and foreign - much like visiting a new...

Better check your widgets, people Security researchers say that thousands of companies are potentially leaking secrets from their internal knowledge base (KB) articles via ServiceNow misconfigurations.…

French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games Nearly four weeks after the cyberattack on dozens of French national museums during the Olympic Games, the Brain Cipher...


The private member information of the BreachForums v1 hacking forum from 2022 has been leaked online, allowing threat actors and researchers to gain insight into its users. [...]

Following a data leak that brought "Tangible fear of threat to life", the UK's data protection watchdog says it intends to fine the Police Service of Northern Ireland £750,000. The August exposure of cops' data affected 9,483 officers and was described by Commissioner Pete O'Doherty of the City of London Police as "The most significant data breach that has ever occurred in the history of UK policing" in an official review.

The UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that it paid a ransom to cybercriminals to protect sensitive data stolen during the Optum ransomware attack in late February. The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang claimed the attack, alleging to have stolen 6TB of sensitive patient data.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with telehealth firm Cerebral in which the company will pay $7,000,000 over allegations of mishandling people's sensitive health data. In March 2023, the company sent out notices of data breach to 3.2 million people who had interacted with its websites, applications, and services, that their information had been exposed due to using tracking pixels on its platform.

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How Google plans to make stolen session cookies worthless for attackersGoogle is working on a new security feature for Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials, meant to prevent attackers from using stolen session cookies to gain access user accounts. A "Cascade" of errors let Chinese hackers into US government inboxesMicrosoft still doesn't known how Storm-0558 attackers managed to steal the Microsoft Services Account cryptographic key they used to forge authentication tokens needed to access email accounts belonging to US government officials.