How to Protect Your Privacy Online Privacy matters. Keeping our digital lives safe from prying eyes is one of the most important and critical issues that we all face in an age defined by a full-frontal assault on our right to privacy and the proliferation of mass surveillance.
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.
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.
Report on Data Security: Failure at Facebook On September 28, Facebook announced that 50 million user accounts had been compromised in a massive security breach, the largest in the…
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