Suzanne Smalley reports: Lawmakers in the European Union’s Parliament on Tuesday voted to greenlight a proposal which would allow Europol to expand data sharing and biometric data collection as part of its effort to fight human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), which approved the package, will now send the proposal to a full…
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Veradigm’s Breach Claims Under Scrutiny After Dark Web Leak
Veradigm LLC is a health information technology company that provides software solutions to healthcare providers. On September 22, 2025, Veradigm filed breach notification letters with some state attorneys general. According to the notice, Veradigm learned that an unauthorized party accessed some clients’ data on December 15, 2024. The clients’ data was located in a storage…
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…
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…
How many courts have had sealed and sensitive files exposed by one vendor’s error?
DataBreaches recently reported that researchers had discovered two courts had sealed filings and court records exposed, but the vendor responsible wasn’t responding to notifications. Despite months of trying to get a software vendor to respond to alerts that their clients’ files are exposed on the internet — including confidential and sealed court records — the…
Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Suspect Extradited to US from Ireland
Waqas reports: A Ukrainian national accused of helping run one of the world’s most damaging ransomware operations, Conti, is now in US custody. After being extradited from Ireland, 43-year-old Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko made his first court appearance in the Middle District of Tennessee to face charges tied to the Conti ransomware group. Prosecutors allege that…