IPVM denied the allegation and said it quickly contacted the FBI when it discovered the crime.
A murdered Russian submarine captain may have been tracked by the killer via the Strava fitness app. According to the BBC, the commander, Stanislav Rzhitsky, kept a public Strava file detailing his jogging routes — including the one that took him through the park where he was killed earlier this week.
Privacy experts have been concerned about the dangers posed by social fitness apps like Strava for years. For example, in 2018, Researchers have revealed several secret US military facilities using public data from soldiers who track their fitness with the app.
While the killer’s motive is currently unclear, Russian investigators say they have arrested a man named Serhiy Denysenko, born in Ukraine, in connection with the murder. According to several Russian Telegram channels, Denysenko served as the head of the Ukrainian Karate Federation.
Ukrainian media reported that Rzhitsky commanded a Russian Kilo-class submarine that may have carried out a deadly missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia last year. Rhitsky’s personal information was previously uploaded to the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets (Peace Makers), an unofficial database of people considered enemies of Ukraine, according to CNN.
Defense Intelligence of Ukraine did not accept responsibility for the death of the commander. “Apparently, he was removed by his own people for refusing to continue to carry out combat orders from his command regarding missile strikes on peaceful Ukrainian cities,” he said. the agency wrote in a statement.
A parliamentary inquiry, led by US senator Elizabeth Warren, found that millions of Americans who pay their taxes online with H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct shared financial information with Google and Facebook. The investigation was prompted by a 2022 report by tick revealed how the three companies transmit sensitive data to Facebook through a tool called Meta Pixel. The data is sent when a taxpayer pays taxes and contains personal information, including income and refund amount.
Warren and six other lawmakers wrote to the US Department of Justice this week, asking for criminal prosecution of tax companies for violating laws that prohibit them from sharing their clients’ personal information. “Tax preparation companies have been astonishingly careless in their handling of taxpayer data,” the lawmakers wrote.
One-third of the 80,000 most popular websites on the internet use Meta Pixel, a 2020 survey by The Markup found. Website operators include pixels to measure clicks from their ads on Facebook’s platform, but at the expense of user privacy. Crisis pregnancy center, Suicide hotlineAnd hospital and were both found to have sent sensitive user data to Meta over the past few years.
Seven Democrats urged the Internal Revenue Service to build its own free tax preparation software, although government services was also caught using Pixel to send data to Meta.
A Nebraska woman pleaded guilty to criminal charges after helping her 17-year-old daughter have a medical abortion last year; Important evidence against her includes her Facebook messages. In mid-June 2022, Nebraska police sent an order to Meta requesting private messages from mother and daughter as part of an investigation into illegal abortion, court documents show. The chats appear to show the mother instructing her daughter on how to take the medicine. One of her messages read: “Ya, the first pill blocks the hormones and then you have to wait 24 hours before taking the other.
Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe sues Wade In June 2022, experts raised serious concerns about the many ways data will be weaponized by law enforcement, who want to prosecute those seeking abortions. Since Facebook Messenger doesn’t default to end-to-end encryption (E2EE) the way messaging services like Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage do, people are especially vulnerable to criminal investigations if they use the platform.
According to a recent Reuters report, prosecutors told a London court that a teenager linked to the Lapsus$ hacking group was responsible for the famous hacks of Uber and fintech firm Revolut on September last year. Arion Kurtaj, 18, faces 12 counts, including three counts of extortion, two counts of fraud and six counts under the UK’s Computer Abuse Act.
The Uber hack is said to have cost the company $3 million. At the time, Uber said the hacker who claimed responsibility had posted pornographic material on an internal website with the message: “Damn you bastards.”
Kurtaj, along with an unnamed 17-year-old, are also facing charges of extortion from BT Group, EE and Nvidia. Prosecutors have described the pair as “key players” in Lapsus$. Kurtaj has been deemed unfit to stand trial by medical professionals; the jury will decide whether he is liable for the hacking incidents.
