Stolen user information from 16 popular apps and services including Dubsmash and MyFitnessPal is now being sold on the dark web, according to a report from The Register. A seller on the dark web marketplace Dream Market has come forward offering login details for more than 617 million accounts for just under $20,000, to be …
It is the first big data breach of 2019. Data stored on cloud storage service MEGA has been reportedly compromised, resulting in more than 87 GB of passwords and email addresses getting leaked. The leaked data, containing 22 million unique passwords and over 772 million email addresses, had been distributed in a folder dubbed ‘Collection …
MADRID: The Spanish Senate approved Wednesday a controversial online data protection law which critics say will allow political parties to target voters with ads based on their internet browsing history. The law was approved in Spain’s upper house of parliament with 220 votes in favour and 21 against. It aims to make Spanish law comply with …
British Airways has given an update regarding a cyber attack where it’s customers’ data was stolen. The company says The investigation has shown the hackers may have stolen additional personal data and we are notifying the holders of 77,000 payment cards, not previously notified, that the name, billing address, email address, card payment information, including …
Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users’ accounts. In the latest report, the data trove was discovered by the BBC, who found an ad for the sale of details on 120million Facebook accounts. Hackers were selling access for $0.10 per account – that’s about 8p. The ad, …
The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that it has hit Facebook with a maximum $500,000 ($645,000) fine around the way it mishandled user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year. The introduction of GDPR has given the ICO the power to issue fines of up to £17 million ($22 million) or four …
Google is going to shut down its social media network Google+ after the company suffered a massive data breach that exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users to third-party developers. According to the tech giant, a security vulnerability in one of Google+’s People APIs allowed third-party developers to access data …
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy,”at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. This hearing will examine privacy policies of top technology and communications firms, review the current state of consumer data privacy, and offer members the opportunity to discuss possible approaches to safeguarding …
Ticketfly says that a cyberattack has exposed information belonging to roughly 27 million accounts. The Eventbrite-owned ticket sales platform took its website offline one week ago. The company said it believed it was the “target of a cyber incident,” and this has turned out to be true. The company said it believed it was the …
Last week ICANN filed for an injunctive relief in a matter related to the latest EU Data law enforcement with the German regional court seeking assistance in interpreting the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in order to protect the data collected in WHOIS. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN“) has …