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Major airlines and hotel chains have failed to secure their online platforms even after previous data breaches and cyberattacks exposed information of millions of customers’ and drew fines from privacy regulators. That’s the conclusion of an investigat… Continue reading Travel Industry Giants Failed to Secure their Websites Despite High-Profile Data Breaches, New Research Shows
The data breach phenomenon has been plaguing the US healthcare sector for more than a decade, with a 2,733% increase between 2009 and 2019, according to a PrivacyAffairs study. Through analysis of reported healthcare data breaches over the past decade,… Continue reading More than 230 Million US Health Records Have Been Stolen or Lost in Past Decade
US-based multinational entertainment and record label Warner Music Group has disclosed a web-skimming attack that may have let cybercriminals steal customers’ personal and financial data. According to a data breach notification submitted with Californi… Continue reading Warner Music Notifies Customers of Web-Skimming Attack; Personal and Financial Data Potentially Viewed by Cybercriminals
In episode 137 for September 7th 2020: A federal appeals court finds the NSA’s bulk collection of phone data was unlawful, new research shows that browsing histories are unique enough to reliably identify users, and my personal story about a car accide… Continue reading NSA Data Collection Ruling, Browsing History Identification, Ambulance Chasing
Users are sometimes tracked online despite no-track options Online profiles are accurate most of the time Large companies can build online profiles with little available data Advertisers can quickly identify users from their online profiles by using da… Continue reading Companies Can Build Accurate User Profiles from Online History, Mozilla Research Finds
A data leak containing 54,000 scanned New South Wales (NSW) driver’s licenses and various tolling notice statutory declarations were discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko last week. “More than 50K scanned driver licenses (front+back) and toll… Continue reading Security Researcher Discovers Over 50,000 Scanned Driver’s Licenses Exposed on Unsecured Amazon Server
Thousands of stolen Fortnite accounts are selling like hotcakes in underground marketplaces, amassing around $1.2 million a year for cybercriminals, a new report shows. The Fortnite Underground Cybercrime Economy report sheds light on a million-dollar … Continue reading Cybercriminals Make Millions Selling Stolen Fortnite Accounts, New Research Shows
The FBI is warning individuals who use online dating apps and platforms to watch out for scammers leveraging social distancing measures and defrauding unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned money. Romance or confidence scams drew nearly 20,000 compl… Continue reading Romance Scams Are on the Rise, FBI Warns
The Freepik Company has disclosed a data breach impacting the login information of more than 8 million Freepik and Flaticon users. According to a press release, the security incident was the result of a SQL injection in Flaticon, one of the world’s lar… Continue reading Freepik Company Discloses Data Breach Affecting More Than 8 Million Users
US-based grocery delivery and pick-up service Instacart has disclosed a security incident that involved unauthorized access of customer information by two support agents from a third-party vendor retained by the company. Instacart says it discovered th… Continue reading Data Breach: Instacart Shoppers Warned of Security Incident after Third-Party Contractors ‘Review’ Too Many User Profiles