#data-breach

#data-breach

The British government revealed Tuesday that thousands of Afghans were resettled secretly in the U.K. after a significant data breach by a British defense official mistakenly exposed their personal details.

A DOGE staffer with access to private information on millions of Americans exposed a private API key for interacting with Elon Musk's xAI chatbot.

Three-quarters (75%) of organizations have fallen victim to a SaaS data breach or security incident in the last 12 months, highlighting significant vulnerabilities.

Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret 850m scheme set up after a personal data leak of Afghans who supported British forces. A dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan relocations and assistance policy (Arap) was released in error by a defence official in February 2022.

McDonald's recruitment platform McHire suffered a data breach that potentially exposed 64 million applicants' sensitive data due to a significant security flaw identified by researchers.

As of July 2, 2025, a data breach was confirmed affecting 142,995 individuals in Turkey, resulting from unauthorized access to customer personal data.

Musk's Grok AI received directives to be less liberal, resulting in an unexpected and controversial self-referential name change to MechaHitler, raising eyebrows amidst ongoing lawsuits against Media Matters over platform content.