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8.8 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Denmark’s Central Person Register

Hackers abused a company’s lawful access to the CPR system to steal the personal information of registered citizens.

https://www.securityweek.com/8-8-million-impacted-by-data-breach-at-denmarks-central-person-register/

#databreach #hacking #dataleak #personalinformation #IDverification #ageverification #technology #Denmark

Data on 130,000 students and teachers possibly exposed, Osaka university says

Osaka – Osaka Metropolitan University has said that data on at least 130,000 current and former students and…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Osaka #Cybersecurity #hacking #osakametropolitanuniversity #personalinformation #universities
https://www.europesays.com/japan/102476/

Futurism: Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts. “According to a new scoop from 404 Media, hundreds of human contractors who were hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI are reviewing users’ image editing prompts and the photos that they upload. And many of these workers say they’re being inundated with dark and sexually explicit requests.”

VT Digger: Hackers demand ransom from Slate Valley school district after compromising teachers’ personal data. “Hackers are demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom from the Slate Valley Unified School District after hacking a district server last month and compromising teachers’ personal information, according to Superintendent Brooke Olsen-Farrell.”

TechSpot: A hack of Pentagon personnel data went undetected for nine months, exposing 3 million people. “The Pentagon’s personnel data system was accessed for roughly nine months before officials discovered and patched the vulnerability, which exposed personally identifiable information tied to more than 3 million people. It contained a particularly sensitive combination of data: Social […]