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…
Category: Non-U.S.
“Louvre” as a password, outdated software, impossible updates… Ten years of IT security breaches at the world’s leading museum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…
‘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…
Massive Great Firewall Leak Exposes 500GB of Censorship Data
Mathura Kayir reports: In a historic breach of China’s censorship infrastructure, over 500 gigabytes of internal data were leaked from Chinese infrastructure firms associated with the Great Firewall (GFW) in September 2025. Researchers now estimate the full dump is closer to approximately 600 GB, with a single archive comprising around 500 GB alone. The material…
UK: Woman charged after NHS patients’ records accessed in data breach
Today’s reminder of the insider threat comes to us from the National Health Service in the U.K. Craig Meighan and Billy Gaddi report: A woman has been charged after Scots patients had their private medical records accessed during an NHS data breach. Reports suggest around 100 patients in NHS Lothian could have had their records…
Landmark civil penalty of AU$5.8 million issued under Australia’s Privacy Act
Charmian Aw, Melissa B. Levine, and Ciara O’Leary of Hogan Lovells write: On 9 October 2025 the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) imposed an AU$5.8 million civil penalty on Australian Clinical Labs Limited, one of Australia’s largest private hospital pathology service providers (the Company), for systemic failures that led to the unauthorised access to…