Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued General Motors (GM) for the unlawful collection and sale of over 1.5 million Texans’ private driving data to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent.
In June, the Attorney General (AG) announced he had opened an investigation into several car manufacturers over allegations that the companies had improperly collected mass amounts of data about drivers directly from the vehicles and then sold the information to third parties.
Read more…
Source: Malwarebytes Labs
Related:
- Personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands lifestyle rewards members accessed in data security breach
November 7, 2023
The personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands customers was accessed in a data security breach in October. The “unauthorised access” took place on Oct 19 and Oct 20 and involved the data of some Sands LifeStyle rewards programme members, said a Marina Bay Sands (MBS) spokesperson on Tuesday (Nov 7). MBS said in response ...
- Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs
November 6, 2023
A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he found the database belonging to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store for importing goods from overseas. The database contained more than ...
- UK: Huge data breach at Southend-on-Sea City Council
November 2, 2023
Details of over 2,000 staff and councillors have been made public in a council data breach. Southend-on-Sea City Council could face six-figure fines for the mistake. The information disclosed included names, addresses and National Insurance numbers. The council leader has apologised and said that all those affected would be contacted and offered advice and support. ...
- India: What you need to know about the Apple and Aadhaar attacks
October 31, 2023
October 31 was a big day for data protection, privacy and surveillance. First, reports poured in about a massive breach of Aadhaar information, with estimates that the data of 815 million Indians had been put up for sale on the ‘dark web’. Soon after, many opposition leaders and civil society members began sharing messages they ...
- Police Service of Northern Ireland reprimanded over unlawful data sharing
October 28, 2023
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been reprimanded for unlawfully sharing personal data on 174 people with a law enforcement agency in the United States. It follows an investigation by the UK data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO said multiple infringements of the Data Protection Act occurred between 2018 and late ...
- Casio Data Breach Impacts Customers in 149 Countries
October 27, 2023
Japanese electronics colossus Casio Computer Co., Ltd. has suffered a data breach on its ClassPad education platform, impacting customers in 149 countries. A technical failure on October 11, 2023, alerted Casio to the cyber intrusion that culminated in an unauthorized entity accessing the ClassPad development database on October 12, 2023. Casio launched an investigation and confirmed ...