☝️ TOP STORY

It’s One Word: Ticketmaster, hi

Scroll down to see this week’s “What Now” on tips on how to be alerted on your financial account activities.

Meanwhile … Phones of journalists and activists in Europe targeted with Pegasus

📰 Headline Highlights 📰

• Ticketmaster Confirms Data Breach. Here’s What to Know.

• 361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP

• Cox fixed an API auth bypass exposing millions of modems to attacks

• Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’

• Collection agency FBCS ups data breach tally to 3.2 million people

• Nearly 400,000 affected by data breach at eye care management services company

• Frontier says 750,000 Social Security numbers accessed during April cyberattack

• UK election campaigns ignore London hospitals cyberattack despite disruption

In other news, Utah Student Gives Hackers False Information to Thwart Phishing

MUST READ: Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm'

🤷‍♀️ What now?

So you think you’ve been hacked?

Think no more, it’s safe to say that you have - most likely indirectly. One or more of the institutions out there that you gave your data to, have been compromised in one way or another. So what should you do?

LOOK OUT: AI deepfakes of politicians in India pose threat to other elections 

You might have noticed that we used Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero lyrics for today’s Top Story but we are not pointing our finger at anybody. It is everyone’s duty to be on the alert. That is why we have shared today’s What Now tip.

Inside Hexagon

It’s Hexagon Center anniversary month. Thank you for your support in helping us warn and provide service to everyday people in cybersecurity. Your continued support is needed in this day and age. Let us work together to keep our society safe in cyber.

Hexagon Center to-do list is long. We are always looking for volunteers and ideas from everyday people to help us move this work along.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Cyber Attackers and Cyber Predators - these terms refer to people who use any kind of technology, including cell phones, to prey on us.

• Phishing - an attempt to steal sensitive information, typically in the form of usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, bank account information or other important data in order to utilize or sell the stolen information.

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) - works by simulating human intelligence through the use of algorithms, data, and computational power. The goal is to enable machines or software to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding.

• API stands for Application Programming Interface. In the context of APIs, the word Application refers to any software with a distinct function. Interface can be thought of as a contract of service between two applications. This contract defines how the two communicate with each other using requests and responses.

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