The City of Columbus, Ohio, confirmed that 500,000 residents were affected by a July 18 ransomware attack by the Rhysida gang. The city also dropped its lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross Jr., who had allegedly downloaded city data from the dark web and threatened to share it, claiming that it was the right thing to do as Ross was simply exposing misrepresentations. The city remained unaware of any misuse of the stolen personal information.
WhatsApp Chat Histories Exposed in Unencrypted Storage on macOS and iOS
Security researchers have raised concerns over how WhatsApp stores user chat data on macOS and iOS, revealing that message databases may be stored in unencrypted
