EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears

he European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it Read More …

Major telco breach sees 6.2 million users have personal info leaked

Dutch telecommunications company Odido has confirmed suffering a cyberattack and losing sensitive data on millions of people. In a notice published on its website, the company says it “deeply regrets” the situation and is “fully committed” to limiting its impact. Read More …

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

Newsletter platform Substack has confirmed a data breach in an email to users. The company said that in October, an “unauthorized third party” accessed user data, including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.” Substack specified that more Read More …

Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans

A data breach at government technology giant Conduent appears to affect far more people than first disclosed, with the number of victims potentially stretching to dozens of millions of people across the United States. The January 2025 ransomware attack, which Read More …

Apple’s new iOS setting addresses a hidden layer of location tracking

Most iPhone owners have hopefully learned to manage app permissions by now, including allowing location access. But there’s another layer of location tracking that operates outside these controls. Your cellular carrier has been collecting your location data all along, and Read More …

Northern Ireland: PSNI officers affected by data breach to receive £7,500

Almost 10,000 police officers and staff affected by a huge data breach in Northern Ireland are to get a payment of at least £7,500 each. The details of all the PSNI’s serving officers and civilian staff were inadvertently published as Read More …

Russian ransomware hackers allegedly hit Tulsa airport in cyberattack, dump private files online as proof

Russian ransomware operators Qilin have claimed to have broken into the Tulsa International Airport and stolen an unspecified amount of sensitive company data. A report from Cybernews says the group recently added the airport to their data leak site, and Read More …