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Chang Dong-woo reports: KT Corp., South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, was found to have concealed critical malware infections and failed to report the security breaches that led to a recent hacking and data theft incident, a government-l… Continue reading Kr: Investigation shows KT concealed malware infections, security failures leading to hacking breach
MM News reports: In a shocking revelation, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told that hackers have defrauded several members of Parliament of hundreds of thousands of rupees through online scams. During the committee meeting, chaired by Se… Continue reading Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told
Peggy Lowe and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. In 2011, af… Continue reading Hack exposes Kansas City, Kansas, Police’s secret officer misconduct list
Divya reports: Swedish authorities have launched formal investigations into a significant data breach affecting Miljödata, a prominent IT company whose security lapse exposed the personal information of over 1.5 million individuals. The Swedish Data Pr… Continue reading Swedish IT Company Data Breach Exposes Personal Details of 1.5 Million Users
Elizabeth F. Greene and Kristen Dupard pf Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP write: The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained several cybersecurity-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements totaling more than $50 million dollars. Collectively, t… Continue reading Something Old and Something New: The False Claims Act and Cybersecurity
Eduard Kovacs reports: Japanese media giant Nikkei on Tuesday reported that hackers had gained access to employee Slack accounts, stealing information pertaining to thousands of individuals. Nikkei, which is best known for major financial publications … Continue reading Nikkei Says 17,000 Impacted by Data Breach Stemming From Slack Account Hack
Tom Williams reports: An external software developer engaged by an Australian government agency accidentally made a collection of private documents available on the public internet earlier this year, according to the nation’s Privacy Commissioner, Carl… Continue reading Software dev accidentally leaks Australian govt documents
Zack Whittaker reports: Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the… Continue reading Phone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds
The headline, and the text that follows, is a machine translation of an article by Brice Le Borgne that appeared in Liberation on November 1, 2025: “The museum’s security systems did not fail,” insisted Culture Minister Rachida Dati shortly after the s… Continue reading “Louvre” as a password, outdated software, impossible updates… Ten years of IT security breaches at the world’s leading museum
Tom Schuba reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyl… Continue reading Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says