Timeline of Top US Government Data Breaches, 1996 to June 2023
Fifteen of twenty-seven major US federal government data breaches have been associated with foreign threat actors, with China topping the list.
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California uses AI contracts to impose safeguards, teeing up clash with Trump
Italy fines its biggest bank $36.4m over data breach, Oz launches probe into internet giants over social media ban failures, Match Group settles with FTC over unauthorized data access, JavaScript library axios became an attack vector after npm account hijacking, much more
Iran-linked hackers leak FBI director’s personal emails in targeted influence operation
Anthropic exposed cache of materials through a misconfigured CMS, Lockdown Mode locks out mercenary spyware, Crypto account protection products fall short, Stats SA hit by ransomware, ClickFix campaign targets crypto users on macOS through fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA pages, much more
Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/21/26
How Israel turned Iran's vast camera network into a targeting tool, Project Maven and the gods of AI warfare, How cops can surveil you using your body's data, Liberal San Francisco is now ground zero for tech-driven surveillance, Prompt optimizations are security flaws
UK sanctions scam-supporting, $20B crypto marketplace Xinbi Guarantee
Judge issues preliminary injunction against DoD's Anthropic ban, EU rejects extension that would allow CSAM scanning, Drone maker TechEx claims SBU wiretapped its chief engineer, Dutch court orders Musk's Grok to stop producing nudified images, EC probes breach of its AWS infrastructure, much more