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Tech Controversies

Controversies, scandals, and public disputes involving technology companies and their leaders. Coverage spikes around safety incidents, executive misconduct, platform failures, and ethical breaches — the stories that forced companies to respond. Extracted from knowledge graph data that captures not just the event but its duration, the entities involved, and how the narrative evolved.

9613 events 3 years of data 20 key entities

23andMe admits it failed to detect cyberattacks for months.

failed 1 article 2024-01-26

23andMe

Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users' accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October

TechCrunch · 2024-01-26 · #44

Predatory Sparrow's operations are characterized by reporting as among the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents targeting civilian infrastructure.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Predatory Sparrow

A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever

Wired · 2024-01-26 · #15

Reporting describes Predatory Sparrow as 'Israel-linked' and suggests the group likely has ties to the Israeli government.

rumored 1 article 2024-01-26

Predatory Sparrow Israel

A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever

Wired · 2024-01-26 · #15

Some developers claim Apple's new Core Technology Fee in the EU is eerily similar to Unity's controversial Runtime Fee.

rumored 1 article 2024-01-26

Developers Apple Core Technology Fee (EU) Unity Runtime Fee

Some developers say Apple's new Core Technology Fee in the EU is eerily similar to the controversial Runtime Fee that Unity touted and withdrew after a backlash

Game Developer · 2024-01-26 · #4

Security researchers report that apps including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, and Twitter are circumventing Apple's privacy protections by using push notifications as a loophole to collect user data.

rumored 1 article 2024-01-26

Facebook Instagram Threads TikTok X LinkedIn Twitter Apple privacy rules user data push notifications

Mysk: iPhone apps including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and X are skirting Apple's privacy rules to collect user data through push notifications

Gizmodo · 2024-01-26 · #9

An NSA letter reveals the agency purchases logs of Americans' domestic internet activity from commercial data brokers without obtaining warrants.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

NSA commercial data brokers logs of Americans' domestic internet activities

An NSA letter to Sen. Ron Wyden reveals the agency buys logs related to Americans' domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers without warrants

New York Times · 2024-01-26 · #12

Review criticizes the Magic V2 for a dated operating system and processor and for having software issues.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Honor Magic V2 dated OS dated processor software issues

Predatory Sparrow carried out cyberattacks that crippled gas station payment systems in Iran on multiple occasions, paralyzing pumps and related services.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Predatory Sparrow Iranian gas stations

A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever

Wired · 2024-01-26 · #15

Predatory Sparrow has been linked to destructive attacks on Iranian steelworks, including an incident that set a steel mill on fire.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Predatory Sparrow Iranian steel mills

A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever

Wired · 2024-01-26 · #15

Apple informed some users that iMessage access on their Mac was revoked due to irregular activity.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Apple iMessage access for Beeper users on Mac

Cruise denies hiding the pedestrian-dragging video from regulators, attributing the issue to poor internet connectivity.

denied 1 article 2024-01-26

Cruise pedestrian-dragging video

A Cruise report finds its top executives' adversarial approach toward regulators led to a cascade of events that ended with a suspension of its autonomous fleet

New York Times · 2024-01-26 · #23

Apple's EU terms introduce a per-install fee (reported as \u20ac0.50 per first annual download) and a core technology fee, which critics say will impose substantial costs on developers and hinder alternative app stores and payment services.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Apple

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Apple's “anticompetitive scheme rife with new junk fees” is illegal under the EU's DMA and an example of “malicious compliance”

9to5Mac · 2024-01-26 · #25

Hackers began breaking into 23andMe user accounts in April 2023 and continued through September 2023.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Hackers April 2023 September 2023

Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users' accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October

TechCrunch · 2024-01-26 · #44

Hackers broke into 23andMe user accounts during the intrusion period.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Hackers 23andMe user accounts

Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users' accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October

TechCrunch · 2024-01-26 · #44

Hackers successfully accessed 14,000 23andMe user accounts.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Hackers 14,000 accounts

Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users' accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October

TechCrunch · 2024-01-26 · #44

Access to compromised accounts gave hackers access to personal data belonging to 6.9 million 23andMe customers.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Hackers personal data of 6.9 million customers

Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users' accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October

TechCrunch · 2024-01-26 · #44

23andMe became aware of the breach in October 2023.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

23andMe October 2023

Filing: 23andMe says hackers started breaking into users' accounts in April 2023 and continued through September; 23andMe became aware of the breach in October

TechCrunch · 2024-01-26 · #44

The group claims it limits harm and conducts attacks carefully to protect innocent individuals, despite evidence of civilian harm.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Predatory Sparrow

A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever

Wired · 2024-01-26 · #15

Unity touted a Runtime Fee and later withdrew it after developer backlash.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Unity Runtime Fee

Some developers say Apple's new Core Technology Fee in the EU is eerily similar to the controversial Runtime Fee that Unity touted and withdrew after a backlash

Game Developer · 2024-01-26 · #4

Predatory Sparrow has been linked to attacks on Iran's railway system computers, causing disruption to rail operations.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-26

Predatory Sparrow Iranian railway system

A profile of Israel-linked Predatory Sparrow, whose cyberattacks of Iranian civilian targets are some of the most aggressive offensive hacking incidents ever

Wired · 2024-01-26 · #15

Mayor Eric Adams says social media companies are fueling a mental health crisis among young people and vows to hold tech companies responsible.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-25

Mayor Eric Adams social media companies youth mental health

New York City issues a public health advisory officially designating social media as an “environmental toxin”, blaming it for a youth mental health crisis

Axios · 2024-01-25 · #33

X (formerly Twitter) is flooded with sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift; one post remained live for 17 hours and received over 45 million views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and about 24,000 reposts.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-25

X AI-generated pornographic images of Taylor Swift

An investigation reveals the spy tool Patternz can track billions of phone profiles via ads.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-25

Patternz phone profiles

An investigation details a spy tool called Patternz, which can track billions of phone profiles via ads in hundreds of thousands of apps, including 9gag and Kik

404 Media · 2024-01-25 · #14

HPE reports that a threat actor believed to be Russia-linked 'Midnight Blizzard' exfiltrated data from a small percentage of HPE mailboxes beginning in May 2023.

confirmed 1 article 2024-01-25

HPE Midnight Blizzard HPE mailboxes

Filing: HPE says a threat actor believed to be Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard exfiltrated data from “a small percentage of HPE mailboxes” beginning in May 2023

Bloomberg · 2024-01-25 · #16