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Santander US reveals employee bank account details stolen
Thousands of Santander’s US-based employees had their bank account information stolen in the recent data breach.
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London hospital attackers started leaking blood test data
Cybercriminals behind attacks disrupting at least five London hospitals leaked nearly 400 gigabytes of data, which reportedly included blood test information.
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Anthropic’s updated mid-size AI model claims the crown
AI startup Anthropic has launched a new large language model (LLM), Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which replaces the previous free tier Claude 3.0 Sonnet. The company claims that this chatbot is currently the most powerful, outperforming even the top-tier models from competitors.
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Popular bubble tea chain Chicha San Chen breached in Singapore
Members of Chicha San Chen are advised to change their passwords as soon as possible, as hackers exposed credentials and personal information on the dark web, the Straits Times reports in Singapore.
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Security firm Accenture breached, claim cybercriminals
Private data allegedly belonging to more than 30,000 employees of multinational IT company Accenture is being sold by cybercriminals. The company claims that only the data of three employees were leaked.
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EU pushes new law to allow bulk scanning of your chat messages
European elections are over, and the European soccer championship is in full swing – why not greenlight bulk searches of people’s private communications, even encrypted ones? The proposed EU legislation has activists all over the continent up in arms.
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Advance Auto Parts confirms breach, says it’ll cost millions
American automotive parts giant Advance Auto Parts confirmed that the company’s data was accessed via its third-party.
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Imposter security researcher blamed for stealing $3M from Kraken
Kraken, the US-based cryptocurrency exchange, disclosed a mysterious theft of $3 million in cryptocurrency, blaming hackers who were acting as “security researchers” in a bug bounty program. Imposters alerted about an actual critical vulnerability, but only after profiting from it.
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US car dealerships back to pen and paper after a cyberattack
Car dealerships across the US faced a significant computer system outage due to a cybersecurity incident affecting their software provider, CDK Global.
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Major AI bots, including ChatGPT, freely spread Russian propaganda
A new experiment by NewsGuard has shown that leading AI chatbots, including ChatGPT and Mistral, are rehashing Russian propaganda and serving it to users who are presumably looking for reliable information.
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Circle K Atlanta allegedly breached, data stolen – hackers
Popular convenience store chain Circle K was claimed by a prominent ransomware gang, alleging it stole gigabytes of Circle K Atlanta’s data.
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AI will improve weather forecasting: but what about meteorologists?
Artificial intelligence might soon produce quicker and more accurate weather forecasts, meteorologists in Germany have said in a new research document. But aren’t they digging their own graves?
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Los Angeles United becomes latest US school district to ban smartphones
The Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) board voted on Tuesday to become the first US school district to ban students from using smartphones while on campus.
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Kansas City, Kansas Police Department data leaked online
A notorious hacker group has allegedly leaked data stolen from the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department (KCKPD) after a failed ransomware negotiation.
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Star ed-tech company discloses data breach
Learnosity, an e-learning platform with more than 40 million learners, has disclosed a cybersecurity incident.
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Amtrak discloses data breach, users urged to reset passwords
US passenger railroad service Amtrak, which operates intercity rail services in nearly all states, has started informing some customers of a data breach.
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Social media warning labels aimed at teens urged by US Surgeon General
The US Surgeon General on Monday called for a warning label to be added to social media apps, like TikTok, as a reminder the platforms can cause harm to young people.
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US gov sues Adobe for hiding fees, preventing easy cancellation
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit against Adobe on Monday, accusing the creative software application company of deceiving consumers with hidden fees and an elusive cancellation process.
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Total Fitness UK leak exposes 474K members' personal pics, some of kids
UK’s Total Fitness health club chain has been leaking hundreds of thousands of personal images and private data from a non-password protected membership database.
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Cloud over your summer getaway: hackers set sights on Booking.com hotels
Malicious hackers have infiltrated a prominent hospitality app, so you should be extra careful when booking your next holiday.
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