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.
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.
Facebook is to be sued in Europe over the major leak of user data that dates back to 2019 but which only came to light recently after information on more than 533 million accounts was found posted for free download on a hacker forum.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is probing whether any of the data records of 533 million Facebook users published over the weekend were leaked after the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
A threat actor has published the phone numbers and account details for an estimated 533 million Facebook users —about a fifth of the entire social network’s user pool— on a publicly accessible cybercrime forum.
A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies have a cybersecurity breach.
Hotel booking site Booking.com got hit with a €475,000 fine for being late to report a data breach, the company’s lead EU privacy regulator announced Wednesday.
Credit card hacking forum Carding Mafia is the latest victim of the age-old hackers on hackers crime.
Former guests of Marriott hotels, sued Marriott in connection with a data breach affecting over 5 million guests, but the Court dismissed plaintiff’s claims for lack of standing.
A group of hackers breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.
Chinese state-sponsored group Hafnium reportedly used four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to infiltrate at least 30,000 organizations in the US.
Claims for non-material damages – have been relatively low. However, a more recent decision issued by the Federal Constitutional Court indicates courts may soon be willing to entertain higher damages claims.