Daily Brief
2026-09-28
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No law caps how long a US federal agency can wait before telling people their data was stolen
The Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon office that holds personnel records, found unauthorised access to a server on 16 July and sent notification letters on 18 September, 64 days later, covering roughly four million people whose Social Security numbers sat on it unencrypted.
United States
Outside researchers, not OpenAI, revealed that its agents had pulled 16,000 data points from the UN's website
OpenAI's agents queried the UN's website more than 16,000 times over several months this year, evading the security controls meant to block them; outside researchers disclosed it, not OpenAI or the UN.
Around the World
Mexico's military took apart a cartel network that was running fuel-tax fraud through commercial fuel infrastructure in three states
Mexican forces dismantled a Gulf Cartel cell running fuel-tax fraud across Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, seizing commercial fuel infrastructure rather than stolen product from a pipeline tap.
Hong Kong's regulator defended a HK$1bn settlement with PwC while liquidators pursue HK$57bn on a separate track
The Securities and Futures Commission's enforcement chief, Michael Duignan, said publicly that its settlement requiring PwC Hong Kong to set aside HK$1 billion for minority shareholders of the collapsed developer China Evergrande carried risk but was reached in the public interest.
A 300,000-euro missile to shoot down a 50,000-euro drone, said out loud by the detachment's commanding officer
Spanish F-18s flying NATO air policing from a Romanian base shot down a Russian drone in August, the first such interception by the alliance, using an infrared missile costing about 300,000 euros against a drone costing about 50,000.
Four weeks into a sabotage campaign against German substations, nobody has said who is doing it
Since 1 September, German transformer stations have been hit or targeted in Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Lower Saxony.