# Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:theregister)  published 2026-08-03 14:13 ingested 2026-08-04 08:43

[original source ↗](https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/03/police-national-legal-database-confirms-data-theft-after-dark-web-leak/5282332)

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AI
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                            ai and ml China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panicFor the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition
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                            Security Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violencePoisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another
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                            SYSTEMS A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
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                            OFF-PREM Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowingCloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
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                            DEVOPS Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexerPersistent sessions could be just the beginning
Infosec
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                            Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
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                            Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more
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                            Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
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                            Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified
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                            Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
FOSS
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                            FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash anotherWord up
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                            GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensionsNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
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                            A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15
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                            Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websitesFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
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                            Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assemblyJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
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                            Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server
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