Majority of Australian youth still use social media despite ban, researchers find

2026-04-14T02:51:55Z70b5da34c1c0bf8e2d80185126238b7886b131ff4ed65f7255e33d800a84d820
Australia social media banBasic-FitCSAM reportingNCMECPII exposureRockstar GamesShinyHuntersW3LLcloud analyticsdata breachextortiongenerative AIlaw enforcement takedownphishingpolicy inquiryransom/blackmailyouth privacy

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Multiple security and privacy incidents reported: international law enforcement (FBI and Indonesian authorities) disrupted the widely used W3LL phishing kit that enabled cheap fake login portals; the ShinyHunters group claims a breach of systems tied to Rockstar Games via a cloud analytics platform and is threatening to leak stolen data; Dutch gym chain Basic-Fit suffered a data breach exposing customer personal information across several EU countries; a U.S. senator opened an inquiry into eight major tech firms for inadequate CSAM reporting and generative-AI–related data handling concerns (N

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