Quest and AMCA Leak 12M Blood-Test Patients’ Data

Millions of people might have had their financial and medical information stolen. Quest Diagnostics contracted its billing collections to a vendor who further subcontracted the work to AMCA, which allowed its systems to be hacked.
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Apple Privacy Policy Fails to Protect Against App Trackers

A typical iPhone has thousands of trackers, silently reporting back to their motherships. Is Apple complicit?
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First American Leaks BIG: 885M Customer Files Exposed

First American Financial is the latest huge corporation being cavalier with your data. Its website has been serving up title documents to anyone who can count.
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SandboxEscaper Drops 4 Windows Zero-Days

A Belgian security researcher just unleashed four Windows zero-days. T. van Houtte, also known as SandboxEscaper, dropped her proofs-of-concept onto GitHub this week.
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49 Million Instagram Users’ Private Data Leaked via AWS

Another day, another unsecured Amazon instance: This time, it’s the sensitive data of almost 50 million Insta “influencers” at risk.
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$100M ‘GozNym’ Bank Trojan Gang: 6 Arrested, 5 at Large

These five handsome specimens are wanted for alleged conspiracy to steal $100 million from bank accounts. Six others are in custody after a coordinated operation by European and U.S. law enforcement.
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WhatsApp Zero-Day let NSO Spyware Pwn Phones

A buffer-overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp is being exploited to remotely take over victims’ devices. All it took was a missed call to infect the app on iOS and Android.
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Russia’s ‘Fake News’ Swirls in U.S. and Europe

Here come yet more stories of Russia interfering in elections, Moscow-sponsored attempts to sow discord, and Putin-led conspiracy-theory spreading. But it has to be said: They’re suspiciously thinly-sourced.
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Photo App Pivots to Violating Its Users’ Privacy

Ever AI is accused of playing fast and loose with user privacy. An investigation alleges it’s been using billions of private photos from millions of users to train an AI facial-recognition product—aimed at enterprises, police forces, and the military…. Continue reading Photo App Pivots to Violating Its Users’ Privacy

Git Code Repos Held to Ransom – Thousands Hacked

Many private Git repositories are at risk of being leaked to the public. Anonymous hackers have wiped the code and are demanding Bitcoin. Or else they’ll open-source it for you. And then everyone will be able to read your soopah-sekrit sores.
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