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American regulator slams data broker for selling mobile location data without consent

The Federal Trade Commission says the data could have been used by organizations to track peoples' visits to doctors or places of worship

Hacked U.S. healthcare provider’s data archive involved over 900,000 people

Archive was data collected by a defunct company that the parent firm had to keep for regulatory reasons

Ontario healthcare providers now face possible fines for ‘severe’ data privacy violations

Privacy commissioner says fines won't be default response to data breaches

Canadian Senator temporarily loses control of X account

The office of Canadian Senator Amina Gerba has confirmed the Quebec parliamentarian's account on the X/Twitter social media platform was hacked this week. Walter Calderon,...

Stolen Gold X accounts are increasingly being peddled on dark web, says report

Cybercrooks have increased the number of new or stolen Gold checkmarked accounts from the X/Twitter platform offered for sale; they are a valuable way...

Ban ransomware payments, Emsisoft urges governments

Plea comes with the release statistics on record ransomware attacks last year in the U.S.

Cybersecurity Year in Review 2023: A zero-day nightmare

The huge exploitation of MOVEit is the story of the year in our annual roundup of top cybersecurity news

Scraped images of sexually abused children found in AI training database

The worry is AI models can take real images of abused children and, combined with other images of youth, turn them into realistic sex fakes for commercial sale

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