It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
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Feed Name: WIRED Security
Date Published: 2026-04-18
Date Updated: 2026-04-26
Author: Dell Cameron, Maddy Varner, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts
A WIRED security roundup reports several active security and privacy incidents: venue surveillance and face-recognition concerns, a vulnerable EU age-verification app, a major data breach at gym chain Basic-Fit affecting ~1M customers, a possible Booking.com customer data extraction, a DDoS attack against Bluesky, and a crypto-exchange (Grinex) heist exceeding $13M; impacts span exposed customer financial and personal data, service disruption, and stolen funds.
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