Divya reports: Swedish authorities have launched formal investigations into a significant data breach affecting Miljödata, a prominent IT company whose security lapse exposed the personal information of over 1.5 million individuals. The Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) initiated the probe following the August attack, which resulted in sensitive data being published on the Darknet and affecting multiple…
Something Old and Something New: The False Claims Act and Cybersecurity
Elizabeth F. Greene and Kristen Dupard pf Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP write: The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained several cybersecurity-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements totaling more than $50 million dollars. Collectively, these settlements reflect a clear message: Cybersecurity is an enforcement priority for the second Trump administration, and any organization that contracts…
Nikkei Says 17,000 Impacted by Data Breach Stemming From Slack Account Hack
Eduard Kovacs reports: Japanese media giant Nikkei on Tuesday reported that hackers had gained access to employee Slack accounts, stealing information pertaining to thousands of individuals. Nikkei, which is best known for major financial publications such as The Nikkei and Financial Times, said the incident involved malware stealing Slack credentials from an employee’s personal computer….
Software dev accidentally leaks Australian govt documents
Tom Williams reports: An external software developer engaged by an Australian government agency accidentally made a collection of private documents available on the public internet earlier this year, according to the nation’s Privacy Commissioner, Carly Kind. The commissioner revealed the data breach on Tuesday and confirmed the incident was reported to the Office of the…
Phone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds
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…
“Louvre” as a password, outdated software, impossible updates… Ten years of IT security breaches at the world’s leading museum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…