Weeknotes 2026.28

Another week. Another short week. This time I took Thursday and Friday off to get on a short vacation.

And on Wednesday the Tour of Austria started in Graz. Therefore, it was a bit of a shorter day as well.

The second short week in a row and the week was full of meetings. So a lot of stuff is still on my stack and I guess the next week will be quite busy.

I added the data breach ticker to the Weeknotes again.

Euclid

Euclid, an ESA-mission I already mentioned a couple of times, has published a blog post about their quasars findings. It is quite impressive, although I didn't understand all the details.

Euclid scientists discover most distant known quasars

Mullvad

Mullvad is a very good VPN provider. They regularly have security audits and don't collect any data. But it seems like at least one of their founders has supported a far-right party.

• Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership
• The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

Record fine for Google

Google lost the final appeal and has to pay a $4.7 billion fine.

Europe's top court upholds Google's record $4.7 billion antitrust fine

Tour de France

It was a quite insane first week of the Tour de France. It seems like Tadej Pogačar isonce again a lot stronger than the rest. The attack on the Tourmalet was quite impressive.

In the third place overall is his Teammate Isaac del Toro. UAE is in a quite comfortable situation. Jonas Vingegaard and his team will need to attack, but at the moment it doesn't seem like they could really hurt UAE.

Tour of Austria

On Wednesday the Tour of Austria started in Graz. And at the time of writing, it seems like as Gregor Mühlberger could win the Tour of Austria. Last year Isaac del Toro won.

Data breach ticker

• Accenture confirms breach after hacker offers stolen data for sale
• Major Japanese telco says cyberattack exposed 12 million emails
• Japanese insurer, brewer, manufacturer and telecom disclose cyber breaches
• Data breach exposes up to 14.2 million email logins at six ISPs
• LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
• Tata Electronics confirms cyberattack as hackers leak data
• Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
• Nintendo confirms data stolen in WebMD subsidiary cyberattack
• Australian sugar producer works to restore operations as ransomware group claims attack
• Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls
• Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang
• iRhythm discloses data breach, says hackers stole patient info
• South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over data breach
• Pharma giant Novo Nordisk discloses breach of clinical trials data
• Japanese energy firm loses drive with data of 10.9 million clients
• Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack
• ServiceNow discloses security incident exposing customer data
• SoFi confirms third-party data breach at Hong Kong subsidiary
• French govt messaging service breached in account hijacking attack
• Oxford University discloses data breach after careers platform hack