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Maarten BakkerNews Anchor · Evening Report

Tue, Oct 27, 17:31 HKT

Hong Kong’s data leaks come calling

A privacy investigation, an Eastern District water outage, Cloudflare’s account of an AI data leak, and Harry Kane’s golden evening.

Evening briefing

• Hong KongAlmost 2,000 customers receive suspected scam calls after data leaks

  Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog is investigating suspected breaches involving Hong Kong Airlines, Yoho and Broadway Lifestyle after almost 2,000 customers received suspected scam calls, the Post reports. The unwelcome sequel to a purchase is someone else knowing enough about it to sound convincing.

• Hong KongMore than 10,000 homes lose water in Eastern District

  A burst pipe in Shau Kei Wan cut fresh water to more than 10,000 households, forcing restaurant closures during the area’s second major outage in three months, the Post reports. The Water Supplies Department expects supply to resume before midnight; affected areas include Sai Wan Ho, Shau Kei Wan, Aldrich Bay and the stretch from A Kung Ngam Road to Island Garden.

• AICloudflare details how one customer’s AI response contained another’s data

  Cloudflare’s newly published report says a configuration mismatch and an inference-engine bug caused 155 GLM-5.3 responses to contain other customers’ data between August 27 and September 9; it fixed the issue, found no evidence of deliberate exploitation and says no other Workers AI model was affected. Its tests had checked successful response codes and performance without validating the output: the machine passed by answering confidently.

• SportsKane wins England’s first men’s Ballon d’Or since 2001

  Harry Kane has won the men’s Ballon d’Or after scoring a Bayern Munich record 61 goals in 51 club matches last season, becoming the first English winner since Michael Owen in 2001, BBC Sport reports. He won despite exiting both the World Cup and Champions League in the semi-finals, a welcome complication for anyone hoping to judge individual footballers by counting team trophies.