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We've got a lighthearted look back at 2025, one heck of a year, and warm holiday wishes from all of us to all of you.

You know. It's December 24th, 2025. I'm Dave Bittner, and this is your Cyberwire Intel briefing. Thank you. Thanks for joining us here today.

It is Christmas Eve.

We're happy to have you with us here today.

Another year, another avalanche of data breaches.

At this point, the modern internet user no longer asks whether their data was exposed,

but rather how many times, and by whom?

Names, emails, medical records, location histories, selfies, IDs,

and the occasional deeply personal message

continue to spill out of corporate servers with such regularity that it feels less like an emergency

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