A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online
Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. The exposed server contained more than […]
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How long should it take to risk-score a privacy incident?
If you’ve been in the privacy world for any amount of time, you recognize there has been a marked increase […]
Annual global data breach costs to exceed $5 trillion by 2024
The annual cost of worldwide data breaches will surpass $5 trillion by 2024, according to a newly published Juniper Research […]
Bulgarian DPA fines bank €500,000 for data breach
Bulgaria’s data protection authority (DPA) – Commission for Personal Data Protection – has imposed a 1 million levs (about 500,000 […]
4 Dating Apps Pinpoint Users’ Precise Locations – and Leak the Data
Grindr, Romeo, Recon and 3fun were found to expose users’ exact locations, just by knowing a user name. Four popular dating […]
DSAR test reveals huge data breach potential
A phoney data subject access request (DSAR) made by a woman’s partner to companies in the UK and the US […]
Data Breaches Show it’s Time to Rethink Use of Social Security Numbers
The Social Security number — created in 1936 to track Americans’ social benefits — was never meant to be a […]
Capitol One Breach Sets Record
Capitol One bank announced that a criminal hacker stole the personal information of 106 million people who had applied for […]
Equifax Agrees to Pay Up to $700 Million to Resolve 2017 Breach
On July 22, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Equifax Inc. agreed to pay at least $575 million, and […]
Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach In Its History’
Hackers successfully targeted Russia’s state security agency last week through a major contractor, stealing and publishing details 7.5 terabytes of […]
Former motor industry worker ordered to pay £25,500 from proceeds of data theft
A motor industry employee who was sentenced to six months in prison in November 2018 for accessing personal data without […]
Whistleblower data breach reports almost triple after GDPR crackdown
Whistleblower reports over data breaches have almost tripled over the past year since the introduction of GDPR. Reports from whistleblowers […]