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Brazilian Hacker Indicted for Demanding $3.2M in Bitcoin After Hacking 300,000 Accounts

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A Brazilian national has been indicted in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen during a hack of a company’s network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, a 29-year-old from Curitiba, Brazil, faces four counts of making extortionate threats related to data obtained from protected computers and four counts of issuing […]

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Apple to Compensate Siri Users $20 Per Device in Privacy Violation Settlement

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Apple has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit for $95 million, addressing claims that its Siri voice assistant violated users’ privacy. The news was initially reported by Reuters. The settlement covers U.S.-based current or former owners of Siri-enabled devices who experienced unintentional Siri activations that led to the capture or sharing of private

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FBI Cracks Rydox Marketplace, Seizes $225,000 in Cryptocurrency, Stops 7,600 PII Sales

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The illegal marketplace Rydox (“rydox[.]ru” and “rydox[.]cc”), which sold stolen personal data, access devices, and other tools for committing fraud and cybercrime, was shut down, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) stated Thursday. Three Kosovo nationals and service administrators, Shpend Sokoli, Jetmir Kutleshi, and Ardit Kutleshi, have also been taken into custody. It is anticipated

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Released from U.K. Prison, Heads to Australia

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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was released from a high security prison at Belmarsh, England, and left the country after more than five years of imprisonment for what the US government called the “largest compromises of classified information” in its history. Assange, 52, entered a guilty plea to one single count of arranging to

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Data of Nigerian Citizens sold online for 100 Naira

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The Paradigm Initiative, a digital rights organisation, has discovered that millions of Nigerians’ personal data is being sold on the internet for as little as 100 Naira (7 cents). This contains private information like a person’s phone number, driving licence, international passport, tax identification number (TIN), permanent voter’s card (PVC), driving licence, bank verification number

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BreachForums Founder Will Not Be Going To Jail

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Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, who founded and oversaw BreachForums, received a sentence of time served and 20 years of supervised release. Fitzpatrick, also known online as “pompompurin,” was detained in New York in March 2023 and charged with possessing child pornography and conspiring to commit access device fraud. After posting a $300,000 bond and entering a

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Microsoft Receives a €60 million Fine from France for Using Advertising Cookies Without User Consent.

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A €60 million ($63.88 million) fine has been levied against Microsoft’s Ireland subsidiary by France’s privacy authority for placing advertising cookies on customers’ computers without getting their permission, a violation of EU data protection laws. Users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine did not have a “tool to refuse cookies as simply as accepting them,” according

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LastPass Acknowledges Serious Data Breach, Password Vaults Stolen

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The LastPass security breach in August 2022 might have been more serious than the firm had initially revealed. The well-known password management service disclosed on Thursday that, using information stolen from the earlier break-in, malicious actors were able to steal a wealth of personal information belonging to its users, including their encrypted password vaults. Basic

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LastPass Suffers Another Security Breach; Exposed Some Customers Information

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Popular password-management firm LastPass announced that it is looking into a second security issue in which hackers gained access to some of its customer data. According to LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, “We recently discovered suspicious activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is now used by both LastPass and its partner, GoTo.” In October

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