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Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceeds South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the digi-cash.…
No fraud monitoring and no apology after miscreants make off with medical, financial data Florida-based Doctors Imaging Group has admitted that the sensitive medical and financial data of 171,862 patients was stolen during the course of a November 2024 cyberattack.…
Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailing A London law firm leaked the details of nearly 200 people who requested to receive updates about the redress scheme set up for victims of abuse at the hands of the Church of England (CoE).…
CEO Altman Promises Fixes to 'Way Dumber' Performance, Transparency Amid GlitchesWhen OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, the company promised a smarter, faster AI at a bargain price. But day-one glitches prompted some users to call for a return to GPT-4. The company’s CEO apologized for the problems as OpenAI cut its pricing model and set up a potential large language model price war.
Packages removed, vendor said to have apologized to AI code editor as onlookers say it could have been a test Developer security company Snyk is at the center of allegations concerning the possible targeting or testing of Cursor, an AI code editor company, using "malicious" packages uploaded to NPM.…
Organized crime types tend not to be kind to those who go against them, so this is nasty A local Japanese government agency dedicated to preventing organized crime has apologized after experiencing an incident it fears may have led to a leak of personal information describing 2,500 people who reached out to it for consultation.…
Nothing says 'sorry' like 10 percent off shipping for a month Ecommerce platform Pandabuy has apologized after two cybercriminals were spotted hawking personal data belonging to 1.3 million customers.…
Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication.…
VirusTotal apologized on Friday for leaking the information of over 5,600 customers after an employee mistakenly uploaded a CSV file containing their info to the platform last month. [...]
ASUS has apologized to its customers for a server-side security maintenance error that has caused a wide range of impacted router models to lose network connectivity. [...]
Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app Japan's minister for digital transformation and digital reform, Tono Karo, has apologized after a government app breached citizens' privacy.…
Blame it on the affiliate Notorious ransomware gang LockBit "formally apologized" for an extortion attack against Canada's largest children's hospital that the criminals blamed on a now-blocked affiliate group, and said it published a free decryptor for the victim to recover the files.…
The hacker who claimed to have breached Optus and stolen the data of 11 million customers has withdrawn their extortion demands after facing increased attention by law enforcement. The threat actor also apologized to 10,200 people whose personal data was already leaked on a hacking forum. [...]
Today, Chris Evans, the CISO of bug bounty platform HackerOne, apologized to Ukrainian hackers after erroneously blocking their bug bounty payouts following sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus after Ukraine's invasion. [...]