Interesting that a coding error was not caught. Did they expect 100% public data or did they not even look?
IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data on Website
Tax agency says error led to posting about some taxpayers with IRAs
The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its website, officials said Friday.
The data are from Form 990-T, which is often required for people with individual retirement accounts who earn certain types of business income within those retirement plans.
… Like most individual tax filings to the IRS, those forms are supposed to be confidential. But charities with so-called unrelated business income are also required to file Form 990-T, and those filings are supposed to be open to the public.
The IRS and Treasury Department blamed a human coding error that happened last year when Form 990-T began to be electronically filed. The nonpublic data was mistakenly included with the public data and all of it was available for searching and downloading on the agency’s website.
No money it compliance?
Facebook parent company repeatedly violated WA campaign finance law, court finds
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet to be determined, a judge ruled Friday.
The court also denied Meta’s attempt to invalidate Washington’s decades-old transparency law, according to Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office has repeatedly sued Meta over its failure to abide by the law.
The oral ruling was made Friday by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North. A written order was not immediately available.
Sounds trivial, but many small problems can create a very large problem.
Hackers Create Traffic Jam in Moscow by Ordering Dozens of Taxis at Once Through App
Hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow on Thursday by ordering dozens of taxis from the ride-hailing app Yandex Taxi to converge on the same location in one of the first known instances of attackers using an app-based taxi company to create chaos on the roads.
Video circulated on social media showing a very long traffic jam of taxis along an otherwise lightly trafficked road.
When everyone says these tools are not trustworthy, someone in the organization need to ensure you aren’t trusting them.
https://www.ft.com/content/d766f618-ec3a-449d-8683-84b3f3a73b06
Wall Street’s $1bn messaging ‘nightmare’
SEC investigation sparks questions about how banks monitor communications in an era of disappearing messages
In 2018 and 2019, as JPMorgan Chase bankers chased lucrative mandates from an aggressively expanding WeWork, they fired off messages to one of their most high-profile clients at a frenetic pace. But as they did so, they broke rules governing communications on Wall Street. The US Securities and Exchange Commission — in an early flashpoint of an investigation that has spread across Wall Street — found that JPMorgan failed to track more than 21,000 texts and emails, sent and received on personal phones or through unapproved apps, related to the co-working company, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigation, which became public last year, has ensnared a growing number of banks, which are preparing to pay more than $1bn in fines to the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, dwarfing earlier penalties for record-keeping breaches.
Tools & Techniques. (I may need more computer power…)
https://www.howtogeek.com/830179/how-to-run-stable-diffusion-on-your-pc-to-generate-ai-images/
How to Run Stable Diffusion on Your PC to Generate AI Images
Artificial Intelligence (AI) art is currently all the rage, but most AI image generators run in the cloud. Stable Diffusion is different — you can run it on your very own PC and generate as many images as you want. Here’s how you can install and use Stable Diffusion on Windows.
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