Collaborate Disseminate
Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Lotte Card was fined 9.6 billion won ($6.5 million) by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) after 450,000 users’ social registration numbers were leaked. The PIPC decided to impose an administrative … Continue reading Lotte Card fined 9.6 billion won for leaking users’ social registration numbers
A.J. Vicens and Christy Santhosh report: An Iranian-linked hacking group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack on U.S.-based medical device and services provider Stryker, according to messages posted to the group’s Te… Continue reading Handala claims responsibility for attack on medical device maker Stryker
Scottish Legal News reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued the fine and reprimand after finding that a series of data protection failures resulted in the excessive collection, handling and unlawful disclosure of sensitive personal … Continue reading Police Scotland fined £66k for extracting and sharing mobile phone data
Emma Woollacott reports: While much emphasis has been placed on the rise of youth cyber crime over the last two years, new research shows hacker activity peaks much later. Orange Cyberdefense looked at the numbers and found that it’s actually thi… Continue reading The rise of teen hackers ‘makes for a good headline’, but cyber crime activities peak later in life
Emanuel Maiberg reports: Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching pornography, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, including their masturbation habits, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. … Continue reading Viral ‘Quittr’ Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users
Clever, the identity platform used by more than 77% of U.S. K-12 schools to simplify and secure digital learning, today released its Cybersecure 2026 Report, an annual survey examining how district leaders are experiencing, responding to, and preparing… Continue reading New Report Finds One in Two U.S. School Districts Experienced a Cybersecurity Incident in 2025
Raphael Satter reports: A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to a source familiar with the ma… Continue reading Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
Alexander Martin reports: The British government on Monday unveiled a new fraud strategy that shifts more responsibility for stopping scams onto telecom companies, technology platforms and financial firms, but critics question whether it goes far enoug… Continue reading UK plans to shift fraud fight onto telecoms, tech companies
Meryl Kornfield, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and Lisa Rein report: The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a complaint that alleges a former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency database… Continue reading Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
On March 4, 2026, Insightin Health, a vendor that provides data analytics and technology solutions to healthcare payers, submitted a breach notification letter to the California Attorney General’s Office. Of note, it stated, in part: What Happene… Continue reading Insightin Health discloses its second data security incident in two years (1)