TechCrunch reports that the Federal Trade Commission has been urged by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., to investigate police surveillance technology firm Flock Safety, claiming that the company had failed to put in place basic cybersecurity protections for its license plate-scanning camera network.
Cybernews reports that U.S. regional gas station and convenience store chain Super Quik had multiple internal files and surveillance video footage exposed by the Play ransomware operation, which claimed to have exfiltrated a 5.5 GB dataset from its systems.
SecurityWeek reports that Anthropic's Claude large language model could have its users' data stolen through the exploitation of its Files APIs as part of an indirect prompt injection attack.
The University of Pennsylvania was claimed to have had data from nearly 1.2 million students, alumni, and donors compromised following the breach of its systems last week, just as the university dismissed hacking email notices from Penn.edu sent to alumni and students on Friday as fake, according to BleepingComputer.
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Conduent, a leading U.S. business services provider, had information from more than 10.5 million individuals compromised following a data breach last year, reports BleepingComputer.
Cybernews reports that major U.S. anime and manga publisher Viz Media, which is behind Naruto, Sailor Moon, and Death Note, was claimed to have had more than 250 GB of sensitive data stolen from its systems after compromising the account of its vice president.
Over 300 million records have been compromised in 794 data breach incidents so far this year, while including aggregated datasets increased the number of leaked records on the dark web to hundreds of billions from more than 1,500 breaches, reports Infosecurity Magazine.
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