Privacy

CyberScoop reports that New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, West Virginia, and Texas have been considering bills aimed at addressing privacy concerns related to the collection and use of data from children, with other states also mulling children's privacy-related legislation.

New legislation that would subject period tracking apps to privacy regulations has been introduced by Washington state Rep. Vandana Slatter, D-48th District, amid growing concerns surrounding the lack of federal privacy protections for such apps following the reversal of Roe v. Wade ruling last June, reports The Associated Press.

Microsoft announced that it’s expanding the general availability of Azure OpenAI, which allows more businesses to apply for access to AI models such as GPT-3.5, Codex and DALL•E 2. 

ZDNET reports that Medibank, the largest health insurer in Australia, is poised to face a joint class action from law firms Centennial Lawyers, Bannister Law Class Actions, and Maurice Blackburn Lawyers aimed at seeking compensation for individuals whose data were compromised in a data breach last October.

Meta has sued surveillance service Voyager Labs alleging that it developed proprietary software that leveraged fake accounts to facilitate data scraping campaigns targeted at the users of its services Facebook and Instagram, as well as YouTube, Twitter, Telegram, and LinkedIn, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Texas-based employee benefit plan administrator Bay Bridge Administrators had more than 251,000 individuals' personal data compromised following a data breach in September, reports SecurityWeek.

Over 460K individuals impacted by MFHS ransomware attack More than 460,000 patients, employees, and vendors had their data compromised following a ransomware attack against Pennsylvania-based nonprofit health provider Maternal & Family Health Services, according to TechCrunch.

BleepingComputer reports that Twitter has claimed that the recent leak of data belonging to 200 million of its users, including their email addresses, was not associated with the exploitation of an already patched vulnerability in the social media platform, which has been linked to an earlier data leak affecting 5.4 million users.