In May, Pornhub began using a new age assurance process to verify some users’ ages, according to an Ofcom press release. The new method relies on signals from Apple that suggest under 18s in the UK “may have completed Apple’s age checks,” the press release said.
The investigation, announced Monday, will probe IDScan’s security practices and whether victim notifications were adequate under Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, the regulator said in a press release.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission will fine Google more than €403 million ($462 million) over the tech giant’s processing of location data, concluding an inquiry into the company that began in early 2020.
The agreement between LinkedIn, ProAPIs and joint business operator Netswift also requires the firms to stop selling and transferring the data, no longer access LinkedIn through fake accounts and delete the data that was scraped, according to a senior LinkedIn executive.
British fintech company Revolut confirmed disclosing sensitive customer data to fraudsters who submitted emergency data requests from a legitimate government email account.
The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed a data breach claimed by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters, saying it originated with the theft of credentials stored on a police officer's personal device.
Veradigm said access was limited to a specific interface, and did not impact the company’s broader environment such as its networks, servers or databases. The incident did not result in operational disruptions, the company added.
On August 26, the State Department labeled A/I an “extremist group” operating infrastructure for “far-left militants across the world” and announced that anyone engaging with the group financially risked exposure to sanctions.
Two populous states and two large cities are among the U.S. jurisdictions where leaders have taken direct action to address criticisms of automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
At least 14 Serbians have been targeted with advanced spyware since December, with victims including a member of Parliament, a local opposition politician and student protesters, according to digital forensic researchers.
Sealed court information and sensitive personal data were exposed in a breach of a Thomson Reuters records platform affecting courts in at least 12 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.
The healthcare data company Aesto informed federal regulators this week that more than 9.5 million people had sensitive information leaked during a cyberattack last December.
A multibillion-dollar settlement with attorneys general from nearly every U.S. state and territory will mean new privacy and safety protections in Meta products.
The legislation would mandate that high-risk social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook take “reasonable steps” to ensure users are over age 16 by using tools like facial age estimation, digital ID services, formal IDs and existing account information for verification.
The Hospital for Sick Children — which was hit in a ransomware incident in 2022 that disabled some of its systems — released a statement on Thursday warning of a data theft incident they believe is tied to a third-party software application.
Latvia’s road traffic agency confirmed that hackers stole data connected to about two-thirds of the country’s population in a major cyberattack that has prompted calls for senior officials to resign.
The crypto hardware wallet company SafePal confirmed a data breach on Sunday, telling users that nearly 40,000 customers had information stolen during a recent security incident.
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