Privacy

The major USAID contractor says unauthorized access continued up to 25 days after the intrusion was first detected.

Virginia-based Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel have been accused by the FTC of leveraging consumer location details without consent, as well as peddling health information, religious views, political activities, and other data to others.

Such a rule, which is open for public comments until March 2025, would not only mandate explicit customer authorization for the sale of data but also strengthen protections against the exploitation of collected data.

Initially identified in the phone of the assassin of Dutch journalist Peter de Vries, Matrix — also known as Mactrix, X-quantum, Totalsec, and Q-safe — was later infiltrated by a joint Dutch and French investigation team, resulting in the discovery and shutdown of 40 servers leveraged by the platform to support at least 8,000 subscriber accounts.

The Embargo ransomware group has claimed targeting U.S. independent pharmacy cooperative American Associated Pharmacies in an attack, which purportedly resulted in the theft of 1.469 TB of data, reports The Register.