It’s not all doom and gloom: When cybersecurity gave us hope in 2023

A TechCrunch security roundup documents several 2023 incidents and privacy developments: a Bangladeshi government website and Taiwanese ridesharing service (iRent) leaked sensitive PII including national IDs and customer records (iRent affected >400,000 users), security researcher disclosures found exploitable vulnerabilities in US court-record systems that exposed sealed documents, and industry responses included Apple deploying rapid security fixes and Lockdown Mode against commercial spyware and Google changing how location data is stored to limit geofence-warrant access.