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Pursuant to a court order received in June, Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange, will be disclosing user data to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the upcoming month.

New EU regulations demand that crypto businesses share client asset info with tax agencies to combat tax evasion by the wealthy.

Network data suggests that the zkEVM-based blockchain, Scroll, has quietly launched on the mainnet. The project team hasn't dropped the official news yet, but they've left a subtle hint.

Reports are surfacing that OpenSea, the NFT marketplace, has potentially suffered a data breach. Due to a vendor's security lapse, OpenSea's API keys may have been compromised, and users have been alerted via email. The best course of action? Replace those keys. Yet, there's been a noticeable absence of official comments from OpenSea on platform X.

OpenAI and Microsoft are under fire in a class-action lawsuit over alleged web scraping to gather private data for training AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 5 in San Francisco, accuses the companies of using stolen private info, including personal data from countless internet users, without consent. The plaintiffs argue that without this data theft, products like ChatGPT and DALL-E wouldn't be the billion-dollar businesses they are today. They seek damages and a halt to the alleged illegal data scraping.

Stablecoin issuer TrueUSD experienced a security breach via a third-party provider, resulting in the exposure of customers’ first and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, bank details, transaction histories, and blockchain account public addresses.

The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States is gearing up to release a ChatGPT-style application aimed at assisting analysts in swiftly and efficiently processing data from open sources. "We’ve gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going," remarked Randy Nixon, the head of the CIA's intelligence division. This initiative is part of a broader government strategy to harness artificial intelligence for the purpose of effectively countering China in the realm of AI-related matters. Furthermore, the CIA has declined to comment on the specific model it intends to employ in its application.

Crypto analytics platform Nansen revealed a security breach stemming from a compromised third-party vendor. This breach led to the exposure of emails, password hashes, and some blockchain addresses for 6.8% of its users. The attacker gained admin access to an account used for customer platform access. Nansen has reached out to affected users, urging password changes and caution against phishing attacks.

After launching its new token, NEXT, Connext experienced a Sybil attack during the airdrop phase. A perpetrator managed to acquire $38,000 in tokens, which were earmarked for genuine users. Notably, Connext is a protocol built for the secure transfer of both assets and data across different networks. Interestingly, the project’s prior efforts to implement an anti-Sybil program proved to be ineffective in preventing the hacking attempt.