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Petro-Points member info breached in Suncor hack

Suncor Energy and its Petro-Canada gas station chain said some Petro-Points member information was leaked during a June 21 breach disrupting online services for days.
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Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram reported down for users worldwide

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Thousands of users worldwide reported problems loading their Facebook accounts and using Messenger Friday morning, and just a few hours later, the Instagram app began to have similar issues.
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AI already outscoring humans in creativity tests

Artificial intelligence (AI) already matches the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test of creativity, according to new research.
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Twitter vs. Meta battle heats up as Musk prepares to sue

Elon Musk will not sit aside while Meta’s new killer app Threads amasses tens of millions of users. A potential legal battle looms.
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Shell reveals customers impacted in MOVEit attack

Shell Global is attempting to reach customers whose personal information may have been exposed during the recent Cl0p zero-day attack on the MOVEit file transfer system.
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Indiana University breach exposed nearly 250K user records

Attackers posted a Indiana University (IU) database containing hundreds of thousands of records, including user emails and full names.
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Akira ransomware decryptor released to public

A decryptor to combat the prolific Akira ransomware, which was used to hack Mercer University, is now available for public download, researchers at Avast have announced.
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US college cyberattack probe reveals 700K affected

Lansing Community College has finished an investigation into a cyberattack that hit it back in March, and confirmed that hundreds of thousands of people were affected.
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Twitter blocks non-users from reading tweets over AI data scraping

In an effort to curb the effects of AI data scraping, Twitter is no longer allowing individuals to view tweets on the social media platform unless they're logged into an account.
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Wikimedia launches petition against UK Online Safety Bill

Wikimedia Foundation has written an open letter to the UK Parliament asking that Wikipedia be exempted from provisions in the Online Safety Bill, which it says would jeopardize open-source nonprofit knowledge platforms.
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TSMC allegedly hacked by LockBit ransomware

TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, has been listed on LockBit’s dark web blog, with the gang demanding $70 million for the stolen data.
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US health dept, law firms join list of MOVEit victims

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and several major US law firms are the latest MOVEit victims claimed by the Cl0p ransomware gang.
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Twitter users’ accounts restricted due to glitch

Some Twitter users have received a notification that their accounts will be restricted for 3 days.
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Wagner ransomware wants to recruit its victims

Wagner ransomware infects user devices and invites them to join the Wagner Group, a Russian private military corporation (PMC) that recently attempted a march on Moscow.
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Cybersecurity incident at Suncor knocks Canadian gas stations offline

Suncor, a major Canadian energy company, has confirmed that a cyberattack has hit the systems of its gas station chain Petro-Canada. In some stations, paying cash is still the only option.
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Siemens Energy, UCLA listed by MOVEit hackers

German energy giant Siemens Energy and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) were listed on the Russia-linked ransomware syndicate‘s dark web blog.
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Biden allocates $42B for universal internet access by 2030

The Biden administration has earmarked $42.45 billion to provide high-speed broadband internet access across all fifty US states by 2030, plugging the gap in America's rural and underserved areas.
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MOVEit breach exposes data of 45,000 New York City students

The New York City Department of Education (DOE) was breached via the MOVEit transfer bug, exposing the personal details of around 45,000 of the city’s students.
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South Korea police bust creators of app used by brothels

Police in South Korea have arrested a group of suspects who built and operated an app used by more than 6,400 brothels across the country. It collected and shared the phone numbers of millions of sex buyers.
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Southwest, American Airlines pilot data exposed

A third-party vendor breach exposed the sensitive details of pilot applicants to Southwest Airlines and American Airlines.
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