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Filed: Kyushu Electric's Missing Drive Holds 10.9M Records
Kyushu Electric's grid subsidiary lost a drive holding 10.9M customer records to a suspected theft, with METI demanding a full report by July 8.
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Breached: Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day Hits 100 Orgs
Oracle's PeopleSoft zero-day hit 100+ organizations, 68% of them universities, with student finance records now on a hacking group's leak site.
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Coupang Fined $412M for Breach Hitting 34M Accounts
A former employee silently accessed 34 million accounts while Coupang grew. The $412M Korean fine that just landed is only the start of the bill.
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Seized: AudiA6 Washed $380M for Ransomware Gangs
AudiA6 laundered $380M for ransomware gangs across three years. A Poland arrest unraveled a network that 11 countries couldn't crack alone.
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DOJ Charges Russian in Void Blizzard Hack of 11 U.S. Firms
Denis Obrezko charged for buying Void Blizzard's attack infrastructure; the FBI confirmed 11 U.S. company breaches, likely a fraction of the total.
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FTC Halts NAA Mortgage Scam Built on CARES Act Lies
FTC's restraining order against National Amendment Assistance exposes how CARES Act branding still lures distressed homeowners into foreclosure.
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ShinyHunters Breached 300 Oracle PeopleSoft Servers
ShinyHunters confirms breaching 300 Oracle PeopleSoft instances at 100+ organizations, with zero-days in play and universities hit first.
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CFTC Proposes Bar on War, Terror Prediction Bets
CFTC's prediction market rule proposes a categorical bar on war and terrorism bets, citing assassination-plot conflicts of interest.
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Judge Clears $38B Visa-Mastercard Swipe Fee Deal
$38B Visa-Mastercard swipe fee deal gets preliminary court nod, but the NRF says the fee cut just rolls rates back to 2023 levels.
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CISA Orders Agencies to Patch Check Point VPN in 3 Days
Qilin ransomware hit a few dozen organizations through a CVSS 9.3 Check Point VPN flaw before a patch existed. Agencies have until June 11.
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Filed: Banks, FDIC, 21 AGs Challenge Colorado Rate Law
Colorado's DIDMCA opt-out drew an amicus coalition of FDIC, OCC, 21 state AGs, and the U.S. Chamber against it in the Tenth Circuit.
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Meta Asks Court to Hold NSO in Contempt
Meta caught NSO running phishing campaigns in violation of a court-ordered no-hack ban, and it's now asking a federal judge for contempt.
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Sued Over DOGE Breach; Tens of Thousands of Stryker Devices Wiped
House Democrats say DOGE's Social Security grab may be the largest breach in U.S. history, and Iran and China had a very bad quarter too.
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Caught: Silent Ransom Group Sends Fake IT Into Law Firms
Silent Ransom Group sent imposters into dozens of law firm offices this year with USB drives. FBI and Mandiant filed concurrent warnings.
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FCA Freezes Euro Exchange Securities Over Crime Gaps
The FCA froze a payments firm operating in the UK, US, and Spain over money-laundering gaps and appointed court managers; hearing is June 11.
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Hijacked Polyfill.io Spoofs Logins at Toshiba, Muji
Polyfill.io reactivated in late May, hitting Toshiba, Muji, and five others with rogue login prompts two years after a Chinese entity hijacked the CDN.
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CFPB Makes Immigration Status a Reg Z Risk Factor
CFPB converts immigration status into a Reg Z income-continuity factor, forcing lenders to audit policies built under its reversed 2023 guidance.
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Sentenced 26 Years for Nemesis Market Drug Sales
Darren Hughes offered free meth samples on Nemesis Market, then sold fentanyl to undercover agents five times in 2023. He got 26 years.
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Sued: IBM Hid 56,000 Foreign Hacks, VP Alleges
Barlow's qui tam suit alleges IBM concealed 56,000 APT 10 breaches from federal clients and didn't keep the logs to know what was taken.
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Fined $104M, AT&T and Verizon Lose at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling upholds $104M in FCC fines against AT&T and Verizon for selling real-time location data to bounty hunters.
