Hackers stole customers' encrypted data during a November 2022 security breach of GoTo, the parent company of password manager LastPass, CNET reports. The breach was a direct result of an August 2022 breach, in which an “unauthorized party” accessed a shared GoTo-LastPass cloud storage service. In N...

The U.S. FBI and international partners in Germany and the Netherlands seized multiple servers allegedly belonging to ransomware group Hive, CyberScoop reports. Hive, "considered a top-five ransomware threat by the FBI," allegedly targeted more than 1,500 victims globally since June 2021. The group ...

Austrian police said a Dutch hacker stole personally identifiable information of “presumably every citizen,” Reuters reports. The unnamed hacker was arrested in November for allegedly stealing nearly nine million sets of data. He reportedly also listed “similar data sets” from Colombia, the Nether...

As the new year kicks off, legislatures around the world appear poised to grapple with data protection and privacy. The IAPP gathered predictions from privacy professionals in 56 jurisdictions across six continents in the “Global Legislative Predictions 2023” white paper to help privacy pros see wha...

The Future of Privacy Forum selected seven winners and two honorable mentions of its 13th annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Awards. Winners will present their papers Feb. 16 in a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. Topics explored in the papers include regulating the digital economy to adva...