Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee’s car.
Tag Archives: Data loss
Weak account checks earn company $10.5 million privacy fine
The telecomms company violates the EU’s GDPR by allegedly failing to fully authenticate people phoning up to access their accounts.
Apple iOS 13.3 is here, bringing support for keyfobby authentication
Bullet-proof authentication is just a tap away!
DoItForState domain name thief gets 14 years for pistol-whipping plot
He hired his cousin to break in, hold the rightful domain holder at gunpoint, and force a transfer to his own GoDaddy account.
Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules
Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
$5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group
Know where Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets is? Can you pry him out of Russia and his Lamborghinis? The biggest ever cybercrook reward awaits!
iCloud-hacking politician to be sentenced on Christmas eve
Former Dutch city council member Mitchel van der K invaded hundreds of iCloud accounts “frequently and repeatedly”.
SMS company exposes millions of text messages, credentials online
Researchers at VpnMentor claim that the TrueDialog data leak exposure could have compromised tens of millions of people.
Mixcloud user accounts up for sale on dark web
A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from music streaming service Mixcloud, according to reports.
Adobe’s Magento Marketplace suffers data breach
Adobe’s Magento Marketplace has suffered a data breach, the company has said in an email sent to customers.