Majority of Australian youth still use social media despite ban, researchers find
2026-04-14T08:51:54Z•7a7d7c921de212786491809a3aebc34f1c0041efb3e881e4440ac06799ebadcb
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What happened
This aggregation covers several security and policy developments: research shows most Australian children aged 12–15 can still access social media despite a December ban; the FBI and Indonesian law enforcement disrupted the widely used W3LL phishing kit; ShinyHunters claim a breach of systems tied to Rockstar Games and threaten data release; unknown attackers exfiltrated customer personal data from Dutch gym chain Basic-Fit across multiple EU countries; and a U.S. senator opened an inquiry into eight major tech companies for alleged failures in reporting CSAM and handling generative-AI related
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