ROMANIA: Romanian Data Protection Authority issues fine for inappropriate TOMs
Andrei Stoica of DLA Piper writes: Just days after proudly announcing its first fine under the GDPR, the Romanian Data Protection Authority has done it again: World Trade Center Bucharest S.A. must pay...
View ArticleGoogle is investigating the source of voice data leak, plans to update its...
Sarah Perez reports: Google has responded to a report this week from Belgian public broadcaster VRT NWS, which revealed that contractors were given access to Google Assistant voice recordings,...
View ArticleGoogle Data Breach Faces Review by Irish Privacy Watchdog
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Google faces a possible investigation by Irish data privacy regulators related to reports that contractors had been able to listen to audio of users of its digital assistant...
View ArticleEstonian information authority urges attention to cybersecurity following...
Baltic News Service reports: The Information System Authority (RIA) has urged both individuals and businesses to take seriously the issue of data protection and security. The announcement follows...
View ArticleEvite Invites Over 100 Million People to Their Data Breach
Lawrence Abrams has a small update to the Evite breach that was first reported in April by ZDNet after a hacker calling themself “GnosticPlayers” put data up for sale on the dark web along with data of...
View ArticleJapanese Exchange Bitpoint Hit By $32m Cyber-Attack
Phil Muncaster reports: Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has become the latest to lose tens of millions of dollars in a cyber-attack. The firm said it was forced on Friday to stop all...
View ArticleSprint says hackers breached customer accounts via Samsung website
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke into an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com “add a line” website. “On June 22, Sprint was informed of...
View ArticleAavgo security lapse exposed hotel bookings
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at a hotel management startup has exposed hotel bookings and guests’ personal information. The security lapse was resolved Monday after TechCrunch reached out...
View Article4 charged in Zippy’s customer credit card data theft (updated)
Nelson Daranciang reports: Credit and debit card information stolen in a 2017 and 2018 Zippy’s data breach was used to make fraudulent purchases in 17 foreign countries and 28 states, including 595 in...
View ArticleUK: Former motor industry worker ordered to pay £25,500 from proceeds of data...
A motor industry employee who was sentenced to six months in prison in November 2018 for accessing personal data without permission, has been ordered to pay a £25,500 confiscation order in a case...
View ArticleRadio station WMNF victim of ransomware cyberattack
Christopher Spata reports: Tampa-based community radio station WMNF 88.5-FM is stepping up cybersecurity after its computer systems were hobbled by ransom-seeking hackers last month. Interim general...
View ArticleUK: Estate agency fined £80,000 after accidentally exposing personal info...
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the following press release involving a monetary penalty related to an unintended exposure incident and a misconfiguration. Imagine if every such leak here...
View ArticleSlack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago. In 2015, the company said it was...
View ArticlePersonal data of users on 1111 job bank leaked on overseas forum
Liu Chien-pang and Ko Lin report: Taiwan job bank 1111 confirmed Friday that the personal data of its online members was hacked and leaked to a foreign-based hacker forum, and the case is now being...
View ArticleQuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
Brian Krebs writes: Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the...
View ArticleHackers Publish List of Phished Discord Credentials
Joseph Cox reports: Earlier this week a group of hackers published a list of email addresses and passwords they say they phished from users of gaming chat platform Discord. The list is small, totalling...
View ArticleEquifax to Pay Around $700 Million to Resolve Data-Breach Probes
AnnaMaria Andriotis reports: Equifax is nearing a deal to settle a slew of state and federal investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed nearly 150 million Americans’ Social Security numbers...
View ArticleAttacking the Heart of the German Industry
Hakan Tanriverdi, Svea Eckert, Jan Strozyk, Maximilian Zierer, and Rebecca Ciesielski report: This investigation starts with a code: daa0 c7cb f4f0 fbcf d6d1. If you know what to look for, you’ll find...
View ArticleYouHodler Misconfiguration Exposed Details on 86 Million Crypto Loan Records
Benjamin Vitáris reports: Security researchers have discovered a data breach that exposed 86 million records of the crypto loan platform YouHodler. According to vpnMentor’s security experts, the breach...
View ArticleFormget security lapse exposed thousands of sensitive user-uploaded documents
Zack Whittaker reports: If you’ve used Formget in the past few years, there’s a good chance we know about it. Formget bills itself as an online form maker and email marketing company based in Bhopal,...
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