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EP 279.5 Deep Dive. Spill, with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending Feb 17th
We open with China’s 8.7 billion-record megaleak, framing misconfigured infrastructure as a planetary-scale risk rather than a local breach. Lenovo’s U.S. class action then shows how invisible web trackers can quietly “spill” American browsing data to China, while South Korea’s heavy fines against Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany illustrate that even luxury brands now pay real money when they mishandle customer information.
The focus then narrows to individuals: a 17.5M-user Instagram dataset on underground forums, malicious GenAI Chrome extensions posing as helpers while siphoning data, and…
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