Ellen Nakashima, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Joseph Menn report: Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software to launch a global attack on government agencies and businesses in the past few days, breaching U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, energy companies and an Asian telecommunications company, according to state officials and…
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More than 100 British government personnel exposed by Ministry of Defence data leak
More details continue to emerge about the Ministry of Defence data breach in 2022 that put thousands of Afghani people seeking relocation assistance and their family members at serious risk of Taliban reprisals. The breach occurred when an MoD employee mistakenly emailed a dataset with information on applicants to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy…
Ukrainian Hackers Wipe 47TB of Data from Top Russian Military Drone Supplier
Kateryna Zakharchenko reports: Cyber specialists from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR), with support from the “Ukrainian Cyber Alliance” and the hacker group “BO Team,” have carried out a cyberattack on the network and server infrastructure of “Haskar Integration” – one of the largest drone suppliers to the Russian armed forces, HUR sources told Kyiv Post…
Ministry of Defence data breach timeline
Some human errors are more dangerous than others. PA News reports: A data breach which may have put up to 100,000 people at risk of death or serious harm from the Taliban can now be reported more than three years after it took place. Here the PA news agency looks at the timeline of events…
Back from the Brink: District Court Clears Air Regarding Individualized Damages Assessment in Data Breach Cases
Gavin Reinke, Ashley Miller and Amanda Wellen of Alston & Bird write: On June 27, 2025, the District Court for the Middle District of Florida, on remand from the Eleventh Circuit, reversed course when it denied class certification to a group of plaintiffs who were purportedly impacted by a spring 2018 cyberattack on Brinker International,…
German court offers EUR 5000 compensation for data breaches caused by Meta
Aurora Munteanu reports: The Leipzig District Court has awarded Facebook users EUR 5000 in compensation for data protection violations from Meta’s Business Tools. This marks a significant precedent in European privacy enforcement. The German court offered the judgment on July 4th, 2025, finding that Meta Platforms Ireland Limited breached the General Data Protection Regulation through its extensive tracking…