Tag: #cybercrime
Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR) is informing around 8.8 million individuals that their personal details were stolen in a data breach. Founded in 1968, CPR is the country’s national civil registration system. It has data on around 11 million persons including residents, citizens who are abroad as well as people who have died. On Monday, […]
On October 1, Microsoft’s official X account was hijacked. The account has over 13 million followers. The former was utilized to promote a fake Clippy-themed cryptocurrency for a short time. Clippy is Microsoft’s old animated paperclip assistant. The former was introduced with Office 97 and later discontinued. For your knowledge Microsoft’s profile picture was replaced […]
Autonomous AI agents penetrated a Canadian official website many times this year. Experts called it a series of unsuccessful, crude hacking attempts with the objective of obtaining old divorce records. Transluce, a nonprofit entity released a report with details of the activity. The agents used the collection-search function of Library and Archives Canada on May […]