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An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 million) for password-security breaches. The Data Protection Commission criticised Meta for failing to put in place appropriate security measures Read More …
The U.K.’s data protection regulator has confirmed it’s investigating MoneyGram after receiving a data breach report from the U.S.-based money transfer giant. The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office, which requires that organizations report data breaches within 72 hours of discovering the Read More …
Tens of thousands of patients from Australia’s biggest medical imaging provider I-MED have had swaths of sensitive health and personal information exposed in a data breach using details that have been public for a year. This information includes medical reports, Read More …
A background check left a huge database unprotected online containing 2.2TB of people’s data, according to research by Cybernews. The database was left passwordless and easily accessible to anyone on the internet by background check firm MC2 Data. MC2 Data Read More …
Luxury British department store has announced that it has been the victim of a data breach, in a notification sent to affected customers. The incident, which the store discovered on 16th September, involved the compromise of sensitive data such as Read More …
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of the Philippines has announced that they’re really concerned over the data breach at APO Production Unit – a government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) in charge of printing passports. During a Senate finance subcommittee Read More …
About 40,000 customers of a major hardware chain have had their data leaked by hackers, including credit card details, mobile numbers and email addresses. Total Tools has fallen victim to a cyber attack which was first identified earlier this week. Read More …
Indonesia’s tax agency is investigating an alleged data breach that exposes the taxpayer identification numbers of millions of Indonesians, including President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, his ministers and his two sons, an official said. A series of cyber-attacks have hit Indonesian Read More …
A ransomware attack that crippled the city of Wichita’s network for more than a month starting in May was limited to a Wichita Police Department records system, city officials said Wednesday. That means the Russian hacker group — LockBit — Read More …
A cybercriminal claims to have breached Temu and stolen millions of customer records, but the ecommerce giant is vehemently denying the claims. A hacker with the alias ‘smokinthashit’ took to BreachForums, one of the most popular underground forums out there, Read More …
