EU data regulator fines Google more than $460 million for location data violations
2026-09-22T08:51:49Z•9c989b1483e85b1aaae130df3daf3b54d190282d2b36ac03b2d46123e582d07d
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What happened
The feed reports several cybersecurity and privacy developments: a major EU regulatory fine against Google over location-data processing, cyberattacks affecting Belgian sports federations and LMU Munich with potential personal and financial data exposure, a takeover of Cl0p’s leak site by ShinyHunters in an apparent extortion dispute, and a court order stopping mass scraping of LinkedIn user data. The items describe active data-protection, breach, cybercrime, and unauthorized-data-collection risks, but provide insufficient technical detail to attribute incidents to specific software CVEs.
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