Even an encrypted messaging app and deleting the application don’t guarantee total privacy. FBI agents successfully recovered Signal messages from a suspect’s seized iPhone by exploiting the system’s push notification database.
The New Zealand government has launched a wide-ranging review of a cybersecurity incident that affected Manage My Health—one of the country’s most widely used platforms for managing electronic patient records. The attack may have exposed private information belonging to around 6–7% of the platform’s 1.8 million registered users and prompted an immediate response from the government and data-protection bodies.