This Week in Data Breaches: The Great Twitter Hack The crypto scam turned out to be part of a massive coordinated hack affecting dozens of major Twitter accounts with millions of followers, the largest security breach in the company’s history.
Build on Bloom at ETHDenver Starting next Friday, come join us for a fun weekend of creativity and development at ETHDenver. We will be offering $5,000 in prizes for the best dapps built on Bloom!
Massive Data Leak Exposes Millions of Loan and Mortgage Documents Last Wednesday, TechCrunch reported that a “trove of more than 24 million financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages from some of the biggest banks in the U.S.” had been left exposed online for more than two weeks.
2018: Rapid Growth & Major Milestones With over 100,000 new BloomID users, the announcement of multiple major partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, the launch of our web and iOS apps, and a thriving developer ecosystem, 2018 proved to be an extremely successful year for Bloom!
This Week in Data Breaches: BlackRock, Nest, Google, and FBI Documents It has been another busy week in data security news with reports on hacks and leaks coming in rapid-fire succession on a near daily basis, from millions of phone logs and text messages being exposed to a massive leak of FBI data in Oklahoma.
A Day in the Life of a Community Manager Derek E. Silva joined the Bloom team in February 2018 after spending several months being an active member of our community. He’s now the Head of Community & Developer Relations, helping take care of all our social media, writing content, and more.
Report on Data Security: Aadhaar Meltdown in India Aadhaar, India’s national biometric identity system, comprises one of the world’s largest databases of biometric and demographic identity data. A system of vast scope with the fingerprints, irises, and faces of over one billion people.
This Week in Data Breaches: Wireless Carriers & Weather Channel Selling Location Data To start off the new year, we have startling new revelations about US wireless carriers selling real-time location data, a massive data leak in Germany, and more data breach settlements. Here we round up the latest in data news.
2018: The Year of the Data Breach 2018 marks a high water point for data breaches and leaks as large corporations and government agencies fail to adequately protect and safeguard the personal and financial information of billions of people worldwide.
Social Security Numbers Compromised in NASA Data Breach NASA disclosed in an internal memo on Tuesday that a security breach of its servers exposed the data of an unknown number of current and former employees, including social security numbers and other personally identifiable information.
Google+ Data Leak: Personal Information of 52 Million Users Exposed Another day, another leak. Google, for the second time in two months, announced Monday that Google+ had once again exposed the personal information of millions of users.
