A leak of 9,000 sensitive New South Wales court documents may expose the details of domestic violence incidents, including some affecting children. The New South Wales Attorney-General has warned potential victims to take extra precautions in the aftermath as police and forensic experts continue to investigate the incident. According to The Sydney Morning Herald , the NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley assured the public that “When we work out exactly whose accounts were compromised, the DCJ (Department of Communities and Justice) will proactively contact those account holders and advise them of what has happened and what the next steps should be.” He also confirmed that the DoC does not yet know what the hackers have done with the data, but that “there’s 9000 files that appear somehow to have been accessed.” Daley stated that “experts have been looking through the dark web and employing other techniques ... to work out what may have happened with the data,” but that it would take “...
Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password-protected database that contained just under 100k records belonging to GenNomis by AI-NOMIS — an AI company based in South Korea that provides face swapping and “Nudify” adult content as well as a marketplace where images can be bought or sold. The publicly exposed database was not password-protected or encrypted. It contained 93,485 images and .Json files with a total size of 47.8 GB. The name of the database and its internal files indicated they belonged to South Korean AI company GenNomis by AI-NOMIS. In a limited sample of the exposed records, I saw numerous pornographic images, including what appeared to be disturbing AI-generated portrayals of very young people. The database also included .Json files that logged command prompts and links to the images they generated. Although I did not see any PII or user data, this was my first look behind the scenes of an AI image generator....