The acting head of U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA uploaded sensitive contracting documents marked “for official use only” to ChatGPT, according to Politico. The outlet, citing officials, reported Tuesday that CISA’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, appointed…
Several public websites designed to allow courts across the United States and Canada to manage the personal information of potential jurors had a simple security flaw that easily exposed their sensitive data, including names and…
The Indian government’s tax authority has fixed a security flaw in its income tax filing portal that was exposing sensitive taxpayers’ data, TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with authorities. The flaw, discovered in September…
When Microsoft introduced Recall for Windows 11, data privacy and protection experts were horrified. Why? Because Recall continuously takes screenshots of your screen and saves them on your computer, even if those screenshots contain sensitive…
Hackers are targeting a previously reported bug in the Signal clone app TeleMessage in an effort to steal users’ private data, according to security researchers and a U.S. government agency. TeleMessage, which earlier this year…
A senior Trump administration official has scrapped a plan that would have blocked data brokers from selling Americans’ personal and financial information, including Social Security numbers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in December…
The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), a labor union representing educators across the state, says hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than half a million of its members. PSEA is the largest organization…
Hackers claim to have published a trove of sensitive data belonging to IVF patients after a cyberattack on Genea, one of Australia’s largest fertility providers. Genea said last week that it had experienced a cybersecurity…
U.K. healthcare giant HCRG Care Group has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident after a ransomware gang claimed to have breached the company’s systems to steal troves of sensitive data. HCRG Care Group is one…
A senior U.S. lawmaker says representatives of Elon Musk were granted “full access” to a U.S. Treasury payments system used to disperse trillions of dollars to Americans each year, and warned that Musk’s access to…