RI treasurer sues Facebook, alleging investment losses from data breach
The Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island sues Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg over alleged financial losses due to data breach.
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British Airways settles data breach class action
British Airways has settled a case brought by customers and staff affected by a massive 2018 data breach that led to personal information being leaked.
Details On 700 Million LinkedIn Users For Sale On Notorious Hacking Forum
Just two months ago, data on 500 million LinkedIn users was scraped and posted online. Now someone’s selling a database with information on 700 million.
Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak
A Chinese software developer trawled the popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information including IDs and phone numbers.
Mumbai lawyer seeks damages from Air India for data breach
An Air India customer has sought Rs 15 lakh (about 20,000 USD) as damages from the airline over the recent data breach of nearly 4.5 million passengers, including him.
Air India says February’s data breach affected 4.5 million passengers
Personal data of about 4.5 million passengers of Air India was leaked in a cyber attack on the airline’s data processor but the compromised servers were later secured, the Indian state-run carrier said in a statement.
Cybercrime thrives during pandemic: Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report
Verizon Business 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report sheds light on how the most common forms of cyber attacks affected the international security.
Ransomware attackers are now using triple extortion tactics
Attackers are not only demanding ransom from organizations, but also threatening their customers, users and other third parties.
Apple Execs Chose to Keep a Hack of 128 Million iPhones Quiet
Emails from the Epic Games lawsuit show Apple brass discussing how to handle a 2015 iOS hack. The company never directly notified affected users.
Negotiations fail, threat actors dump more data from Metropolitan Police D.C.
Hackers stole more than 250 GB of data from Metropolitan Police D.C. Now they are threating to dump the data in public as negotiations fail.
Data leak implicates over 200,000 people in Amazon fake product review scam
An open database has revealed the identities of over 200,000 individuals who appear to be involved in Amazon fake product review schemes. Names, email addresses, and PayPal details were exposed and left online.
Facebook Had Years to Fix the Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data
At issue is Facebook’s “content importer,” a feature that combs a user’s address book to find people they know who also use Facebook. Many social networks and communication apps offer some version of this as a sort of social lubricant. But Facebook’s contact import tool in particular has had a number of known problems, and supposed fixes, over the years.