AT&T Suffers Massive Data Breach Affecting 73 Million Customers In another devastating blow to data privacy, telecommunications behemoth AT&T has disclosed a massive breach involving the personal records of over 73 million current and former customers. The compromised data, spanning
540 Million Facebook Records Found Exposed Online Researchers on Wednesday reported that they found hundreds of millions of Facebook user records exposed online. In the report, Upguard, a cybersecurity firm, detailed the discovery of a trove of more than 540 million Facebook user records that were publicly accessible on unprotected servers.
This Week in Data Breaches: Hundreds of Millions of Facebook Passwords Stored in Plaintext From news of a leak that exposed millions of medical records to revelations that Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext, here we round up the latest in data security and privacy news.
This Week in Data Breaches: Equifax Fines, Facebook “Look Up”, and More From regulators seeking monetary damages from Equifax to Facebook once again invading user privacy, here we round up the latest in data security and privacy news.
This Week in Data Breaches: Collection of 841M Stolen Records For Sale Online From a new collection of more than 840 million stolen records being sold on the dark web to a potential multibillion-dollar fine for Facebook looming on the horizon, here we round up the latest in data news.
This Week in Data Breaches: 2.2 Billion Records Exposed in Largest Data Leak Ever From the release of the largest collection of stolen usernames and passwords ever to a new report detailing more than 59,000 data breach disclosures under the EU's GDPR, here we round up the latest in data news.
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.
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.
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.
