The National Police have arrested a 19-year-old man in Igualada (Anoia) on suspicion of several cybercrimes, including disclosure of secrets and violations of privacy. The young man is allegedly behind the theft of 64 million personal data records, which he then resold online. The data, stolen from nine different companies, includes national identity card numbers, names, home addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and IBAN codes. The investigation began in June when police received alerts about personal data breaches at nine different companies. Their inquiries led them to conclude that a single individual, a young man from Igualada, was responsible for all these activities. Police also determined that, once he obtained the data, the arrested man sold the information on various hacker forums. On these sites, he used five different pseudonyms and maintained six different user accounts. Last week, police searched his home in Igualada and arrested him there. They also seized several computers and cryptocurrency wallets stored on the suspect's devices. Officers also blocked one of these cryptocurrency wallets, which they suspect he used to deposit the profits he made from selling the stolen personal data.

March is coming to an end, a month increasingly marked by the 8th, International Women's Day. And it doesn't surprise me, because there's a clear need to demand more equality and justice. That's why I don't want to let March go by without talking about it, and doing so in conjunction with data, which is key both to understanding the world and making decisions. We talked about this at Open Data Day 2025, organized by the Barcelona Open Data Initiative, and focused on open data technology in support of women's rights. We talked about codes, numbers, words, algorithms, and web portals. But above all, we talked about power. Every bit, every statistic, every set of information is imprinted with a perspective, and that perspective determines what is visualized and what is left in the shadows, or even what is forgotten. If women don't participate in the creation, analysis, and application of this data, the digital revolution will transmit the very biases of inequality of our reality, current and past. I hope not of the future.

In recent years, the relationship between the European Union and large technology companies has been one of the most complex and, at the same time, crucial for the future of digital governance. Digital rights regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Digital Services Acts (DSA), have been significant attempts by Brussels to protect citizens. However, what once seemed like an internal legislative battle between Europe and Silicon Valley giants has taken on a new dimension with the direct intervention of the United States.

In recent years, the relationship between the European Union and large technology companies has been one of the most complex and, at the same time, crucial for the future of digital governance. Digital rights regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Digital Services Acts (DSA), have been significant attempts by Brussels to protect citizens. However, what once seemed like an internal legislative battle between Europe and Silicon Valley giants has taken on a new dimension with the direct intervention of the United States.

The incidence of the virus continues to decline in Catalonia, but the speed at which it does is decreasing as a consequence of the easing of restrictions. "The fall has slowed down a lot", says Biocomsc group researcher Enric Àlvarez, who adds: "[Case numbers] were falling very fast and we had a large margin, but now this margin has become narrower. That is, socialisation has increased a lot". That is why there are experts like virologist of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Margarita del Val who warn of the dangers of overconfidence: "Until we have all risk groups vaccinated we cannot relax, because the virus will take advantage of any truce that you give it to attack again"

When there is a hurricane warning, sales of flashlights go up at Walmart supermarket chain stores. They also sell more Pop-tarts, a type of stuffed cookie. When the company's analysts discovered it in 2004, every time the weather forecasters announced a storm, store managers would put out Pop-tarts at the front of the stores. Pop-tarts' sales exploded.