New York State has announced a $2,000,000 settlement with PayPal over charges it failed to comply with the state's cybersecurity regulations, leading to a 2022 data breach. [...]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for his role in the recent Treasury breach and a company associated with the Salt Typhoon threat group. [...]

Non-profit privacy advocacy group "None of Your Business" (noyb) has filed six complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi, for unlawfully transferring European user's data to China and infringing European Union's general data protection regulation (GDPR). [...]

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP ("Wolf Haldenstein") reports it has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 3.5 million individuals to hackers. [...]

Washington state has sued T-Mobile over failing to secure the sensitive personal information of over 2 million Washington residents in a 2021 data breach. [...]

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. alleging that its Siri assistant recorded private conversations and shared them with third parties. [...]