The law mandates that platforms make it easy for people to ask that nonconsensual intimate images be removed and to delete them within 48 hours of a request.
The investigation began after U.S. authorities informed their Ukrainian counterparts that hackers operating from Ukraine could be involved in attacks targeting users of American e-commerce platforms, Ukraine's Prosecutor General said.
The move comes as other major social media platforms are killing end-to-end encryption for messaging. In recent months, Instagram and TikTok both announced they will no longer offer the feature.
The breach notification letters say 7-Eleven discovered the breach on April 8 and, after an investigation, determined that the cybercriminals gained access to “certain 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents.”
In most complaints, victims said they were given detailed information by fraudsters on how to take money from their bank account, where to find a cryptocurrency kiosk and how to send the funds.
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.