Nikkei Inc. reported a new data breach, its third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million records of personal information. The Japanese giant says subsets of the data contained personally identifiable information and other sensitive details, but most datasets contained no identifying information. The company said 150,000 records contained at least one of the … Read more
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast food giant Burger King, reported a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer details. Founded in Florida in 1953, Burger King is now a multinational fast food chain with nearly 20,000 locations worldwide, including 350 in Japan. In a news release … Read more
Meta is notifying around 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US, that their personal data was compromised after hackers broke into some of the company’s GitHub repositories. The break-in was discovered a few weeks ago. According to the tech giant, an outside group gained access to the repositories using an employee’s stolen credentials. … Read more
Southern Company is notifying approximately 400,000 customers through its online customer portal that an unauthorized third party has accessed their utility account information. The Atlanta-based energy holding company serves more than 9 million customers through electric utilities in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four states. Its electric subsidiaries are Georgia Power, Alabama … Read more
The FBI has fired an Accenture contractor over a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of office employees, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The FBI has not publicly named the contractor or the organization involved. However, a senior official of the office said Reuters that the review … Read more
According to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), information of up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after hackers accessed their identity and access management system and downloaded large amounts of data. ​The university says the attacker used compromised credentials to log into DTUBasen, its identity and access management (IAM) system, allowing access to … Read more
Anthony Albanese says governments must help shape the development of AI, after earlier revealing that an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on the Australian Medicare data portal. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned artificial intelligence is developing at a “breakneck pace” and called on other countries to shape its development, after an OpenAI agent … Read more
Japanese software company Helpfeel is notifying users of its image-sharing service Gyazo that their information has been accessed by hackers. Gyazo is a widely used cross-platform tool that allows users to capture screenshots, GIFs, or short screen recordings and instantly generate shareable links. Helpfeel announced this week that it had recently detected unauthorized access to … Read more