Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally said out loud what the Kremlin has been doing for months. Mobile internet can be switched off across Russian cities whenever security services want it switched off, and ordinary people will be told about it afterwards, if at all.
The UK Biobank, a medical research project, experienced a data breach where the genetic sequences, medical scans and lifestyle records of 500,000 volunteers were listed for sale on Alibaba.
The breach was caused by three Chinese academic institutions that downloaded the dataset from the UK Biobank’s research platform, which was supposed to have strict access controls, and then uploaded it to Alibaba.
According to Professor Luc Rocher, this is the 198th known exposure of UK Biobank data since last summer, and the data remains available online for anyone to download.
France’s national ID card portal, operated by France Titres, was hacked, resulting in the potential sale of 18-19 million records, representing roughly a third of France’s population. The portal is also used by French residents to apply for passports, residence permits, driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations.
Login credentials, full names, email addresses, dates of birth, unique account identifiers, postal addresses, places of birth, and phone numbers may all have been extracted. That combination is a starter kit for identity fraud, synthetic identity construction, and convincing phishing attacks against people who already expect email from French government domains....<<<Read More>>>...