Privacy

Major Australian airline Qantas had information pilfered from a June attack against its Salesforce database leaked by hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters following its refusal to pay the demanded ransom, according to The Guardian.

CyberScoop reports that the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the League of Women Voters, and five individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in D.C. District Court, seeking to immediately stop the Trump administration from expanding the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system into a massive voter and citizenship tracking system.

Discord has repudiated threat actors' assertions of having pilfered 2.1 million government IDs from the breach of its third-party customer service provider, stating that only about 70,000 users had their government ID photos compromised, as it emphasized its refusal to pay the demanded ransom, BleepingComputer reports.

Cybernews reports that the California Golf Club of San Francisco, an elite golf club catering to Silicon Valley executives and other high-profile clients, had 10 GB of member data allegedly stolen by the Qilin ransomware group.

Thousands of children attending schools and daycare centers across Quebec had their data exposed as a result of vulnerabilities in the widely used student pickup time-coordinating app HopHop, which was not approved by the Quebec Ministry of Education, reports Cybernews.

Legislation strengthening the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 by requiring web browsers to provide a simple, universal opt-out tool for consumers who do not want their data sold to third parties has been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Digital fraud has drained 7.7% of annual revenue on average among companies worldwide, with losses estimated to reach $534 billion over the past 12 months, Infosecurity Magazine reports.