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Nearly 2.7 billion records containing up to 800 million unique email addresses and more than 21 million unique passwords have been compromised and published online. The massive data leak, dubbed Collection #1, is made up of individual breaches from “literally Read More …
Cybersecurity researcher has discovered online a massive database containing records of more than 202 million Chinese citizens that remained accessible to anyone on the Internet without authentication until last week. The unprotected 854.8 gigabytes of the database was stored in Read More …
An unknown hacker has released confidential data linked to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and hundreds of the country’s other politicians. The stolen details were released on Twitter over the past few weeks in a sort of Advent Calendar and included Read More …
British and Dutch data protection regulators Tuesday hit the ride-sharing company Uber with a total fine of $1,170,892 (~ 1.1 million) for failing to protect its customers’ personal information during a 2016 cyber attack involving millions of users. Late last Read More …
Three years ago, artificial intelligence company DeepMind embarked on a landmark effort to transform health care in the U.K. Now plans by owner Alphabet Inc. to wrap the partnership into its Google search engine business are tripping alarm bells about privacy. Data Read More …
Amazon has suffered a data breach just days before Black Friday – and the company was tight-lipped about whether it had notified the British data protection authorities. Multiple Register readers forwarded us emails sent from Amazon’s UK tentacle informing them that the Read More …
U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. KrebsOnSecurity was contacted last week Read More …
The security posture of the Office of Personnel Management has improved drastically and by the end of the year, the agency is on track to meeting almost all recommendations the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) made over the past two Read More …
The chain accounts for over 1,400 hotels in over 70 countries and includes the Park Plaza brand, Country Inn & Suites, Park Inn, and Radisson Collection. Radisson Rewards members were directly informed on October 30 and 31 that a security Read More …
As the US midterm elections close in, the underground markets appear to be flush with voter databases available for affordable prices. Voter information is rich with details that could help an attacker learn enough about the victim to steal their Read More …
