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PHOTO: DESIREE RIOS FOR WSJ
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The Trump administration has made border security and immigration enforcement its top priority, and vendors have been eager to secure funding and contracts before political winds shift. The rapid acceleration of AI in border-security tech is bringing new competitors into the industry and offering a new vision for border surveillance. (WSJ)
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General Motors must pay a fine of $12.75 million to settle a 2023 California data-privacy case over its collection of driver information. The car maker sold data about drivers after saying it wouldn't, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said, including personal, behavioral and location information sold to two data brokers from 2020 to 2024. GM made about $20 million from the sales, according to Bonta.
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GM must also delete driver data within 180 days of Friday's settlement and ask data brokers Lexis and Verisk to do so as well.
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PHOTO: REBA SALDANHA/REUTERS
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Restored: Canvas, one of the most widely used education apps, said it had restored services after pulling the plug in the middle of finals week at many colleges to deal with a cybersecurity incident. Instructure, which runs Canvas, said hackers accessed some customer data, including names, email addresses and student ID numbers, and messages between Canvas users. (WSJ)
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The ShinyHunters hacking group claimed its attack affected 9,000 schools. (EdScoop)
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Identity-security company SailPoint said it discovered on April 20 that one of its GitHub repositories was hacked through a vulnerability in an application from an unnamed third party. SailPoint has notified customers whose information was exposed, the company said Friday in a disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Akamai saw big gains on Friday, ending the week up 40% after announcing a $1.8 billion computing deal with Anthropic. Fortinet also saw outsized gains for the week, surging 30% for the period after reporting fundamentals that outperformed analysts' expectations.
These jumps helped push WSJ Pro's CyberIndex up nearly 10.5%.
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On the other end, Leidos suffered steady losses throughout the week. The defense-focused cyber firm declined 13% despite a strong demand outlook. Cloudflare also saw double-digit losses, falling 10% for the week. — Jon Leckie
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Water hacks: Five water treatment facilities in Poland were hacked last year, the country's Internal Security Agency said in a new report. Hackers linked to Russia and Belarus exploited weak passwords and industrial systems open to the internet, the agency said. (SecurityWeek)
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Hackers early this year used Anthropic's Claude AI tool for reconnaissance in an attempted cyberattack on a water facility in Mexico, according to industrial security company Dragos. (Cybersecurity Dive)
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Complying with every cyber rule might be impossible: Facing an alphabet soup of increasingly complex cybersecurity and data privacy regulations, some companies are veering away from efforts to satisfy every requirement to the letter, and instead falling back on industry standards. “No company out there is complying with the law 100%,” said Nish Imthiyaz, global privacy and responsible AI counsel at telecom company Vodafone. Read more from Dow Jones Risk Journal. (gift link)
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The former head of the hacking and surveillance tech unit of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris must pay $10 million to the company in restitution for stealing hacking tools and leaking them, likely to the Russian government. Australian national Peter Williams was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty in March in federal court in Washington, D.C. (TechCrunch)
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