Zack Whittaker reports: Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. EU officials said they’re “concerned” about the trade of citizen and officials’ mobile phone location…
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“Louvre” as a password, outdated software, impossible updates… Ten years of IT security breaches at the world’s leading museum
The headline, and the text that follows, is a machine translation of an article by Brice Le Borgne that appeared in Liberation on November 1, 2025: “The museum’s security systems did not fail,” insisted Culture Minister Rachida Dati shortly after the spectacular burglary at the Louvre Museum on October 19. Ten days later, the tone had changed. On…
Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says
Tom Schuba reports: Rogue employees of a Chicago company that specializes in negotiating ransoms to mitigate cyber attacks were carrying out their own piracy in a plot to extort millions of dollars from a series of companies, prosecutors say. Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator for River North-based DigitalMint at the time of the…
Canadian woman stuck since 2021 in Mauritius after passport withheld
DataBreaches can’t recall any recent cases in the news involving one spouse hacking another’s email, but this one seems a bit unusual. Geoffrey York reports: A Canadian woman says she has been stuck in the Indian Ocean country of Mauritius for the past five years, unable to return home, partly because Canada refuses to release…
‘People have had to move house’: Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack
Sometimes we forget about breaches when they are out of the immediate news cycle. Here is a reminder that some ransomware attacks have long-lasting impacts. Athena Stavrou reports: Home to more than 170 million items, including Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the world’s largest and most impressive book collections. However, in October…
Two years after an audit highlighted significant concerns, North Salem Central School District leaves sensitive student data at risk
From the Office of NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli: North Salem Central School District – Audit Follow-Up (2022M-140-F) Issued Date September 26, 2025 [read complete report – pdf] | [read complete 2022 report – pdf] Purpose of Review The purpose of our review was to assess the North Salem Central School District’s (District’s) progress, as of May…