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Attackers remotely opened breakers at three Ukrainian electricity distributors, leaving around 225,000 customers without power in the first known grid blackout caused by a cyber attack.
The CJEU has declared the EU–US Safe Harbor framework invalid, affecting transfers of personal data to the United States.
Around 400GB of internal files from the Italian spyware vendor are posted online, exposing client lists, source code, and previously unknown zero-day exploits.
The Court of Justice of the EU ruled that people can ask search engines to remove links to outdated or irrelevant personal information.
Germany said US intelligence may have monitored Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone, and summoned the US ambassador.
Anti-spam group Spamhaus weathered a DNS amplification attack reported to peak at around 300Gbps, prompting warnings about open DNS resolvers.
US prosecutors charged alleged LulzSec and Anonymous members, revealing that leader Hector Monsegur had pleaded guilty and was cooperating.
Symantec published analysis of Duqu, espionage malware found by Hungarian researchers that shared much of its code with Stuxnet.
A breach at Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar produced fraudulent certificates, including for Google, reportedly used to spy on Iranian users.
Anonymous supporters launched denial-of-service attacks on Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal after they stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks.
Google admitted its Street View cars had mistakenly collected data sent over open Wi-Fi networks, triggering investigations worldwide.