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The hugely popular social platform Discord has revealed that official ID photos belonging to about 70,000 users may have been leaked following a cyber attack. Discord says that, while its own platform was not breached, hackers did target a third-party service provider which helps to verify the age of its users.  According to a press […]

Two seventeen-year-old boys have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police during their investigation into a cyber theft incident against London-based nursery chain Kido. According to the Met Police, the pair, who remain in custody for questioning, were arrested at residential addresses in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, suspected of computer misuse and blackmail. Orchestrators of the breach […]

Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to exploit human trust – and the latest weapon in their arsenal? AI chatbots and large language models (LLMs) that have become embedded in everyday platforms. These tools can be innocuous helpers, but in the wrong hands they become potent vehicles for malvertising campaigns. The Rise of “Grok” & […]

Japan’s brewing giant Asahi has revealed that personal data may have been stolen during the ransomware cyber attack which struck the company in late September. The company was forced to halt production at most of its thirty country-based factories after the attack led to major disruption, with ordering, delivery and accounting systems being heavily affected. […]

I Storbritannia utforsker man utrullingen av et nasjonalt digitalt ID-system, og de potensielle fordelene presenteres som åpenbare: strømlinjeformet tilgang til offentlige tjenester, raskere verifisering for bank- og helsetjenester og mindre avhengighet av fysiske dokumenter. Selv om disse fordelene er tiltalende, vekker overgangen til et sentralisert digitalt identitetssystem store bekymringer sett fra et [...].

Den amerikanske kredittopplysningsgiganten TransUnion har blitt utsatt for et stort datainnbrudd som har ført til at personopplysninger om 4,4 millioner mennesker i USA er blitt eksponert. Ifølge dokumenter som er arkivert hos statsadvokaten i Maine, ble bruddet oppdaget tidligere i år den 30. juli, to dager etter at hackerangrepet fant sted. TransUnion, som samler inn [...]