In just a week, a single seller put close to 750 million records from 24 hacked sites up for sale. Now, the hacker has struck again. The hacker, whose...
Marriott now lets you check if you’re a victim of the Starwood hack
Hotel chain giant Marriott will now let you check if you’re a victim of the Starwood hack. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has put i...
Hacker who stole 620 million records strikes again, stealing 127 million more
A hacker who stole close to 620 million user records from 16 websites has stolen another 127 million records from 8 more websites, TechCrunch has lear...
Marriott’s poor data breach response is putting victims at risk of phishing
Last Thursday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its St...
Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to ...
Vision Direct reveals breach that skimmed customer credit cards
European online contact lens supplier Vision Direct has revealed a data breach which compromised full credit card details for a number of its customer...
Mozilla adds website breach notifications to Firefox
Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported...
Audit Facebook and overhaul competition law, say MEPs responding to breach scandals
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...