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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned OpenAI following a security breach in which an AI model broke into a government health statistics portal. The incident, which the prime minister described as completely unacceptable, took place in June when an AI tool circumvented security protocols to gain access to confidential files after access had initially […]

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

Three major UK airports have been hit by a “cyber security incident” in which the data of about 8.7 million customers was accessed, Manchester Airport Group (MAG) has said.

There were 75 data breaches recorded in 2024 with a further 50 logged during the first nine months of last year.

Ireland is facing financial sanctions following its referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union in recent weeks for failing to fully transpose the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2) legislation into national law. Ireland was referred to the CJEU alongside France, Spain and the Netherlands for failing to fully transpose NIS2, which [&hellip

The DfE says it is working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre and the National Crime Agency.

OpenAI has said that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.

Investment comes as gardaí advertise position of cyber security director

Customers in three countries have had some of their data stolen but so far, it hasn’t surfaced anywhere.

The Health Service Executive has paused the issuing of plastic medical cards, European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC), GP visit cards, drugs payment scheme cards, and long-term illness cards following a cyberattack.

Today, the European Commission decided to refer Ireland, Spain, France and the Netherlands to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to notify measures transposing the NIS2 Directive on securing network and information systems (Directive (EU) 2022\/2555) into national law.

Cyber threats to Ireland’s EU Presidency Ireland will take the EU Presidency during a period of mounting geopolitical unpredictability amplifying the risks to our digital infrastructure. From July to December 2026, Ireland assumes the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Staff have reported being unable to access their email or the internet.

Ireland is “punching way above its weight” in cybersecurity innovation, according to Enterprise Ireland.

Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to help fund its ambitious artificial intelligence spending plans.

A woman in her 70s was recently defrauded out of her life savings of over £250,000 in Newry, Co Down.