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OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.OpenAI took ChatGPT offline to investigate an issue but did not provide details as to what caused the outage.
In a separate incident, another 766,846 burger-buyers whose data should have been destroyed after a retention period expired also saw their info leak, attracting a ₩10 million wrist slap. The company therefore coughed up info about 1,540 customers, and earned ₩40 million in fines.
Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself offline, and even stopped serving customers, while it tries to clean up an attack on its systems. Latitude said the attack on the vendor exposed credentials of its staff, which were used to log on to two other service providers it uses for matter such as identity verification.
Scandinavian Airlines has posted a notice warning passengers that a recent multi-hour outage of its website and mobile app was caused by a cyberattack that also exposed customer data. The cyberattack caused some form of a malfunction on the airline's online system, causing passenger data to become visible to other passengers.
Atlassian suffered a data leak after threat actors used stolen employee credentials to steal data from a third-party vendor. Atlassian confirmed to BleepingComputer that the compromised data was from third-party vendor Envoy which they use for in-office functions.
Atlassian has confirmed that a breach at a third-party vendor caused a recent leak of company data and that their network and customer information is secure. As first reported by Cyberscoop, a hacking group known as SiegedSec leaked data on Telegram yesterday, claiming to be stolen from Atlassian, a collaboration software company based out of Australia.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica to access users' personal information without their consent for political advertising.
"The DPC corresponded with Twitter International Unlimited Company in relation to a notified personal data breach that TIC claims to be the source vulnerability used to generate the datasets and raised queries in relation to GDPR compliance," the Irish privacy regulator said on Friday. Twitter's lead EU watchdog wants to determine if Twitter has complied with its obligation as a data controller regarding the processing of users' data and if it infringed any General Data Protection Regulation or Data Protection Act 2018 provisions.
Twitter confirmed today that the recent leak of millions of members' profiles, including private phone numbers and email addresses, resulted from the same data breach the company disclosed in August 2022. Twitter says its incident response team analyzed the user data leaked in November 2022 and confirms it was collected using the same vulnerability before it was fixed in January 2022.
Every year the personal data of millions of people, such as passwords, credit card details, or health details, fall into the hands of unauthorized persons through hacking or data processing errors by companies. In the EU, any data leak that may result in risks for the concerned individuals must be reported within 72 hours.