Privacy

France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has imposed a €1.7 million GDPR fine on software company Nexpublica for severe cybersecurity failures that led to a significant data breach, according to The Cyber Express.

A small, globally dispersed team of digital security experts at Access Now's Digital Security Helpline serves as a critical frontline defense for journalists and human rights activists targeted by government spyware, according to TechCrunch.

Except for Rhode Island’s proactive disclosure requirement, experts say the new state laws break little ground.

Cybernews reports that Massachusetts-based accounting firm CSA Tax & Advisory had corporate and client data allegedly compromised by the Lynx ransomware-as-a-service operation.

International Protestant Christian church and charitable organization Salvation Army had 93 GB of data purportedly stolen from its systems by the Interlock ransomware gang, Cybernews reports.

The Register reports that Indian law enforcement was confirmed by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to have arrested one of its former customer service agents bribed into providing almost 70,000 customer records that were then used to compromise the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange last December.

Widely known U.S. tech and culture magazine Wired had data from more than 2.3 million website users allegedly exposed on the new Breach Stars hacking forum by the threat actor "Lovely," who has also threatened to publish information from over 40 million users purportedly stolen from Conde Nast, the parent firm of Wired, according to HackRead.