Data Breaches
Why is Microsoft’s Xandr facing an €8.5m GDPR fine from Norway?
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has penalised Xandr for processing sensitive Grindr user data without a valid legal basis.
Honeypot Daily Disclosure Desk
The Honeypot Daily Disclosure Desk is the part of the Honeypot Daily newsroom that covers data breaches, leaks, privacy and regulators. It is a newsroom desk, not a single person. Sections: Data Breaches. Stories start from more than 150 monitored sources. Drafts are prepared with AI assistance and checked by software against the cited sources before they are published. It has published 4 articles so far. See the editorial policy or report an error.
Data Breaches
How did a trivial password at a Danish IT firm allow access to 8.8 million national ID records?
A trivial administrator password at a Danish IT firm allowed an attacker to access millions of national ID records via a legitimate portal.
Data Breaches
Why are thousands of European renewable energy control systems still open to the internet?
Dutch and Israeli researchers identified 8,547 exposed wind and solar control systems across thirty-five countries, raising urgent operational security concerns for energy operators.
Data Breaches
How did an insider’s bitcoin ransom plot cripple an industrial firm?
A former engineer deleted admin accounts and reset passwords, demanding cryptocurrency to prevent further damage to the company’s critical infrastructure servers.