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Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security - Ars Technica

510 · internetofthings · horrorstories · orgbehavior

October 15, 2026 at 8:50:08 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/fridge-hack-costing-millions-and-sparking-fires-stemmed-from-poor-security/

Hackers heat up supermarket fridges, spoiling food across France | Malwarebytes

CONTROLS CONTROLS CONTROLS where were the controls

510 · internetofthings · horrorstories · backdoors · patching

October 13, 2026 at 10:27:54 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/10/hackers-heat-up-supermarket-fridges-spoiling-food-across-france

How “123456” became the key to almost 9 million personal records | Malwarebytes

510 · passwords · horrorstories

October 12, 2026 at 8:46:58 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/10/how-123456-became-the-key-to-almost-9-million-personal-records

www.Sarsen.org: Historic England’s Vanishing Archive

Online collection display outsourced to company with whiz-bang proprietary display gizmo plus DRM. Company fails. Online collection vanishes.

668 · saas · outsourcing · horrorstories · drm

September 29, 2026 at 11:52:42 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.sarsen.org/2026/09/historic-englands-photos-didnt-vanish.html?m=1

A data leak shut a top research biobank: lessons from the recovery | Nature

510 · 668 · datacuration · security · horrorstories · datasecurity · reidentification

September 14, 2026 at 11:19:19 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02803-y

Claude Code deletes 15% of Bengaluru inscriptions project records

668 · ai · horrorstories · agenticai

September 3, 2026 at 7:14:07 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/story/india/karnataka/bengaluru/when-claude-code-went-rogue-years-of-bengaluru-heritage-work-disappeared-4131958

Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.

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August 23, 2026 at 5:59:31 PM CDT * · permalink

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https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider - Ars Technica

668 · cloudstorage · horrorstories

August 17, 2026 at 9:05:03 AM CDT * · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-storage-provider/

Apple says former employee exploited 'rare' bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI | TechCrunch

510 · breaches · horrorstories · workplaces · insiderthreat

July 13, 2026 at 8:06:35 PM UTC * · permalink

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/apple-says-former-employee-exploited-rare-bug-to-download-confidential-files-after-leaving-for-openai/

Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition - Ars Technica

351 · 340 · 644 · facialrecognition · horrorstories · policing

June 11, 2026 at 6:01:03 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/man-jailed-due-to-faulty-face-recognition-says-florida-cops-ignored-other-evidence/

My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with - Ars Technica

What happens without data minimization processes.

510 · highered · breaches · horrorstories

June 5, 2026 at 6:38:15 PM UTC · permalink

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/my-ssn-was-exposed-in-a-breach-at-columbia-a-school-i-have-no-connection-with/

Even More Data Horror Stories - Research Data Services

668 · datacuration · horrorstories

November 12, 2025 at 6:09:13 PM UTC · permalink

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https://researchdata.wisc.edu/data-horror-story-contest/even-more-data-horror-stories/

Data Horror Story Contest Winner: The Ghost in the Drive - Research Data Services

668 · datacuration · horrorstories

November 12, 2025 at 6:08:54 PM UTC · permalink

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https://researchdata.wisc.edu/data-horror-story-contest/data-horror-story-contest-winner-the-ghost-in-the-drive/

‘People have had to move house’: Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack | The Independent

644 · 510 · breaches · libraries · horrorstories · labor

November 3, 2025 at 2:56:21 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/british-library-strike-cyber-attack-b2855495.html

They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Their employer denied it for a decade | CBC News

510 · incidentresponse · breaches · horrorstories

October 13, 2025 at 6:11:17 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/interior-health-data-breach-investigation-9.6931436

American Archive of Public Broadcasting allowed access to restricted media for years | Malwarebytes

668 · security · archives · digitalcollections · horrorstories · authorization

September 24, 2025 at 1:49:37 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/09/american-archive-of-public-broadcasting-allowed-access-to-restricted-media-for-years

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters | US universities | The Guardian

351 · 510 · highered · surveillance · horrorstories

August 7, 2025 at 3:34:34 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations | US universities | The Guardian

351 · 510 · highered · surveillance · horrorstories

August 7, 2025 at 3:34:26 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/university-of-michigan-surveillance-students

Statement-concerning-surveillance-on-the-University-of-Michigan-campus.pdf

351 · 510 · highered · surveillance · horrorstories

August 7, 2025 at 3:34:07 PM UTC · permalink

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https://facultysenate.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Statement-concerning-surveillance-on-the-University-of-Michigan-campus.pdf

UMich student protesters report surveillance by undercover investigators

351 · 510 · highered · surveillance · horrorstories

August 7, 2025 at 3:33:56 PM UTC · permalink

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https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/umich-student-protesters-report-surveillance-by-undercover-investigators/