Tag: personal data

February 28, 2024

US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia. In addition to the executive […]

February 12, 2024

The Caravan and Motorhome Club (CAMC) and the experts it drafted to help clean up the mess caused by a January cyberattack still can’t figure out whether members’ data was stolen. According to an update shared with members late last […]

February 6, 2024

Verizon is notifying more than 63,000 people, mostly current employees, that an insider, accidentally or otherwise, had inappropriate access to their personal data. The privacy blunder happened in September, and the American telco giant attributed it to “inadvertent disclosure” and […]

January 12, 2024

Despite all the buzz around internet-connected smart cars at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, most folks don’t want vehicle manufacturers sharing their personal data with third parties – and even say they’d consider buying an older or dumber car […]

January 3, 2024

One of America’s biggest private freight shippers, Estes Express Lines, has told more than 20,000 customers that criminals stole their personal information. “As you may be aware, on October 1, 2023, Estes discovered that an unauthorized threat actor had gained […]

December 15, 2023

A data regulator has reminded companies they need to take care while writing emails to avoid unintentionally blurting out personal data. Unsurprisingly, much of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) guidance comes down to the correct use of address fields […]

December 13, 2023

Close to a million records containing personally identifiable information belonging to donors that sent money to non-profits were found exposed in an online database. The database is owned and operated by DonorView – provider of a cloud-based fundraising platform used […]

October 26, 2023

ServiceNow is issuing a fix for a flaw that exposes data after a researcher published a method for unauthenticated attackers to steal an organization’s sensitive files. Security researcher Aaron Costello highlighted apparent issues with the default configurations of ServiceNow’s widgets, […]

August 30, 2023

When it comes to free apps and websites, most of these services rely on collecting – and selling – personal data. Google and Facebook are well known for building detailed profiles of everyone who ever uses their services, using that […]

July 11, 2023

The personal details of Bangladeshi citizens have been accidentally disclosed by the website of the Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration. According to research by TechCrunch and confirmed by South African company Bitcrack Cyber Security, the leaked […]

April 6, 2023

Google Play will be pushing Android app developers to allow users to delete their account and associated data from within the app. Users will also be given the option to only delete data where applicable, as some data needs to […]

March 7, 2023

When it comes to data breaches, organizations are generally informed about the risks and procedures for mitigating them. They can (typically) respond with minimal collateral damage. But the impact a data breach can have on individuals can be devasting; getting […]

February 27, 2023

The Dutch police announced the arrest of three individuals in connection with a “large-scale” criminal operation involving data theft, extortion, and money laundering. The suspects include two 21-year-old men from Zandvoort and Rotterdam and an 18-year-old man without a permanent […]

February 14, 2023

Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest bottlers of Pepsi beverages in the US, has reported a data breach affecting the personal information of several employees. The company filed a notice of the data breach with the Attorney General of Montana on […]

January 11, 2023

Twitter has been going through a lot over the last few years, and its troubling past continues to haunt the social media giant. It was recently revealed that hackers had stolen the details of approximately 200 million Twitter users. The […]

December 5, 2022

Every year the personal data of millions of people, such as passwords, credit card details, or health details, fall into the hands of unauthorized persons through hacking or data processing errors by companies. The consequences for those affected can be […]

November 16, 2022

Hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are exposing personal identifiable information (PII), new findings from Mitiga, a cloud incident response company, show. “Leaking PII in this manner provides a potential treasure trove for threat actors – […]

November 2, 2022

The file hosting giant said it learned about the breach on October 14, after being alerted by GitHub. A few weeks earlier, GitHub had warned that some of its users had been targeted in a phishing campaign impersonating the ​​continuous […]

September 15, 2022

The working landscape has changed forever. Now, with workforces dispersed across hybrid work environments, having the technology to allow employees to operate effectively while staying secure is key for every organization. For the last 33 years, NetSupport Manager has been […]

August 1, 2022

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an alert to warn Americans of the rising threat of smishing (robotexts) attacks aimed at stealing their personal information or for financial scams. “The FCC’s Robocall Response Team is alerting consumers to the rising […]