Worldwide, a total of 890,000 computers were infected and more than fifty million passwords were stolen. This is the conclusion of security company Group-IB based on its own research. Investigators from the company identified 34 gangs behind the attacks using known malware such as RedLine and Raccoon Infostealer. This malware is capable of stealing login […]
Thanks in part to action by the Dutch police, the American authorities have taken offline a criminal marketplace where millions of stolen login details were traded, as well as tens of thousands of credit card details and scanned passports and driver’s licenses. The alleged administrator of the WT1Shop marketplace has also been charged. This is […]
Observer: “Probably to avoid answering questions about Facebook’s cover-up of the Cambridge Analytica data breach Facebook has settled for an undisclosed sum this case just days away from Mark Zuckerberg being cross-examined under oath for six hours.”
A vulnerability in the Android version of the Ring app, which is used to remotely manage Amazon Ring outdoor (video doorbell) and indoor surveillance cameras, could have been exploited by attackers to extract users’ personal data and device’s data, including geolocation, address, and recordings.
Cloud communications company Twilio says some of its customers’ data was accessed by attackers who breached internal systems after stealing employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack.
In an attack on Twitter, data of 5.4 million users was stolen, which was then offered for sale on the Internet, the company has confirmed. Last month, Restore Privacy reported that an attacker had obtained account details of 5.4 million users through a vulnerability in Twitter. The vulnerability made it possible to retrieve telephone numbers […]
Sixty percent of breaches have resulted in companies recouping the cost of fines, clean-up, and technological improvements by increasing prices, essentially making consumers pay for breaches and companies’ lack of preparedness, according to the “Cost of Data Breach Report 2022”.
Telecom provider T-Mobile has reached a settlement in the United States with the victims of a major data breach that occurred last year in which the personal data of 79 million current and former American customers was stolen. This included names, dates of birth, social security number and driver’s license information, as well as telephone […]
The processing of location data is unnecessary, such as Windows 10’s location setting being automatically enabled violates the “data protection by default” requirement under Article 25(2) GDPR. The DPA noted that the principle of “data protection by default” requires that the controller, when using third-party software or firmware, ensures that functions for which there is […]
The America’s leading not-for-profit health plans and health care provider Kaiser Permanente,, has recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the health information of more than 69,000 individuals. An attacker accessed an employee’s email account containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) which included the patients’ first and last names, medical record numbers, dates of service […]