[Brief] Canvas Hack: Company Pays Criminals to Delete Students' Stolen Data
Education platform Canvas suffered a hack resulting in student data theft. The affected company chose to pay the criminals to have the stolen data deleted.
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Canadian Election Databases Use 'Canary Traps' to Successfully Catch Data Leakers
Canadian election authorities implanted ‘canary traps’ — unique false data records — in voter databases, successfully tracking and identifying unauthorized internal access to sensitive voter data.
Top US AI Companies Agree to Work with Pentagon on Classified Data
Several leading US AI companies reach agreements with the Pentagon to provide artificial intelligence services in classified data environments, sparking privacy and ethics debates.