Hackers claim to have UnitedHealth’s stolen data – is it a bluff?
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A freshly formed hacking gang claims to have won access to a massive stash of data stolen from UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health…
Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data
By Katie Paul and Anna Tong NEW YORK (Reuters) – At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services…
Google to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were…
Cyber-attacks: data theft on the dark web increases by 45% in 2023
2023 saw an increase in compromised account credentials, combined with other extremely valuable data to hackers. It is estimated that more than 7.5 billion pieces of data are circulating on…
AT&T says leaked data set impacts about 73 million current, former account holders
By Gursimran Kaur (Reuters) – Telecom company AT&T said on Saturday that it is investigating a data set released on the “dark web” about two weeks ago, and said that…
Portugal orders Sam Altman’s Worldcoin to halt data collection
By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – Portugal’s data regulator has ordered Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project Worldcoin to stop collecting biometric data for 90 days, it said on Tuesday, in the…
China relaxes security review rules for some data exports
By Ella Cao, Ethan Wang and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s cyberspace regulator on Friday issued rules to facilitate and regulate cross-border data flow, clarifying reporting standards for security…
Air Europa says customer data may have been compromised in October breach
By Chandni Shah (Reuters) – Spanish airline Air Europa said on Friday personal data of its customers may have been compromised in a security incident that was detected in October…
Turkey moves against Meta over Threads-Instagram data sharing
By Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s competition authority imposed on Monday an interim measure on Meta Platforms Inc meant to hinder data sharing between the Instagram and Threads platforms…
Hacker forum post claims UnitedHealth paid $22 million ransom in bid to recover data
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A post on a hacker forum popular with cybercriminals has claimed UnitedHealth Group paid $22 million in a bid to recover access to data…