A credit-based economy and reputation-driven user system helped build trust among offenders and sustain a thriving underground forum. One of the forum's notable internal rules prohibited the sale or publication of any data related to Russia, hinting at the origin of LeakBase's operators.
Around 2013 in Taiwan's context, when Facebook started to take over the digital ecosystem in Taiwan, many local independent bulletin boards that had been formed for sexual minorities were shut down because they had no income from advertisements, and people were pushed into mainstream platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Meta, whatever, Twitter now X where sexual expression was usually reported or flagged.
Israeli spies hacked nearly every traffic camera in Tehran for years in order to monitor the movements of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an unprecedented intelligence-gathering campaign, according to a report. Officials surveilled highly trained and loyal security guards, bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials to pick up on their "pattern of life".
Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons! I'm releasing this because the DHS is killing us and people deserve to know which companies support them and what they're working on.
What happens if you take sleeping pills with alcohol? How much would be considered dangerous? Could it be fatal? Could it kill someone? Kim is reported to have asked the OpenAI chatbot, with prosecutors alleging her search and chatbot history show a suspect asking for pointers on how to carry out premeditated murder.
In the Oracle EBS hacking campaign, the Cl0p ransomware and extortion group exploited zero-day vulnerabilities to gain access to data stored by more than 100 organizations in the enterprise management software. Madison Square Garden (MSG), the world-famous arena located in New York City, was named by the hackers as a victim of the campaign in November 2025.
We had not onboarded Google because we first wanted RCS messages to be routed through the Airtel spam filter. Under the partnership, Airtel's network intelligence will be combined with Google's RCS platform to enable real-time checks on business messaging, including sender verification, spam detection, and enforcement of users' do-not-disturb preferences.
At least three advertisers, two from Brazil and one from China, were found to engage in celeb-bait scams, which often involve misusing the image of well-known figures to trick people into clicking on bogus ads that lead to scam sites. These websites are designed to harvest sensitive data or dupe unsuspecting users into sending money or investing in fake platforms.
Age verification technologies are some of the most child-protective technologies to emerge in decades. Our statement incentivizes operators to use these innovative tools, empowering parents to protect their children online.
Asked by investors about his biggest worries, CEO Rick Smith said: A misstep around privacy and data handling. Without elaborating on specific examples, he said: We are seeing that those are concerns right now out in the public. I think that would be one where we could make a mistake that would have outsized negative consequences.
Children under 13 had their personal information collected and used in ways they could not understand, consent to or control. That left them potentially exposed to content they should not have seen. This is unacceptable and has resulted in today's fine.
On Jan. 24, a woman and her fiance allegedly caught him taking a picture up her skirt. The man confronted Sanchez, who said he was going through a hard time but fled the store when the man called police, authorities said. The Walgreens manager helped police identify Sanchez as a suspect.
As enterprise platforms rush to add conversational bots into workflows, they're also inadvertently giving those agents broad access to sensitive information - and, in some cases, letting bots chat freely in a way no privacy or marketing team would ever approve. This is exactly the type of hidden pitfall Aaron Costello, chief of SaaS security research at AppOmni, hunts for.
In 1973, long before the modern digital era, the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) published a report called "Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens." Networked computers seemed "destined to become the principal medium for making, storing, and using records about people," the report's foreword began. These systems could be a "powerful management tool." But with few legal safeguards, they could erode the basic human right to privacy - particularly "control by an individual over the uses made of information about him."
