After holding a series of hearings in the wake of the Facebook –Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal this summer, and attending a meeting wit...
Equifax slapped with UK’s maximum penalty over 2017 data breach
Credit rating giant Equifax has been issued with the maximum possible penalty by the UK’s data protection agency for last year’s massive d...
Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million
Timehop has disclosed a security breach that has compromised the personal data (names and emails) of 21 million users (essentially its entire user bas...
Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million
Timehop has disclosed a security breach that has compromised the personal data (names and emails) of 21 million users. Around a fifth of the affected ...
Bank says Ticketmaster knew of breach months before taking action
Ticketmaster UK announced on its site yesterday that it identified malicious malware on June 23rd that had affected nearly five percent of their custo...
Yet another massive Facebook fail: Quiz app leaked data on ~120M users for years
Facebook knows the historical app audit it’s conducting in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal is going to result in a tsuna...
Dixons Carphone discloses data breach affecting 5.9M payment cards, 105k of which were compromised
European electronics and telecoms retailer Dixons Carphone has revealed a hack of its systems in which the intruder/s attempted to compromise 5.9 mill...
UK watchdog issues $330k fine for Yahoo’s 2014 data breach
Another fallout from the massive Yahoo data breach that dates back to 2014: The UK’s data watchdog has just issued a £250,000 (~$334k) penalty f...
Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
Facebook is facing calls from consumer groups to make the European Union’s incoming GDPR data protection framework the “baseline standard ...
1Password nets partnership with ‘Have I Been Pwned’
A little over a month since 1Password incorporated a pwned password check feature developed by Have I Been Pwned‘s Troy Hunt, the password manag...