37 million T-Mobile customers hacked in data breach

T-Mobile said a “bad actor” accessed personal data from 37 million current customers in a November data breach. In a regulatory filing Thursday, the company said the hacker stole customer data that included names, billing addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates Read More …

PayPal says crooks poked around 35,000 accounts in credential stuffing attack

The personal information of 35,000 PayPal users was exposed in December, according to a notification letter sent to the online payment company’s customers this week. PayPal attributed this privacy breach to “unauthorized parties,” who accessed accounts using customer login credentials. Read More …

WhatsApp Ireland fined €5.5 million for breaches of GDPR

WhatsApp Ireland has been fined €5.5 million for breaches of GDPR. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has also announced that WhatsApp Ireland has been given six months to bring its data processing operations into compliance. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Read More …

MailChimp discloses new breach after employees got hacked

Email marketing firm MailChimp suffered another breach after hackers accessed an internal customer support and account administration tool, allowing the threat actors to access the data of 133 customers. MailChimp says the attackers gained access to employee credentials after conducting Read More …

NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again

A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications in the name of fighting terrorism and so forth. NSA director General Paul Nakasone told the Privacy Read More …

NortonLifeLock warns that hackers breached Password Manager accounts

Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks. According to a letter sample shared with the Office of the Vermont Read More …

US Supremes deny Pegasus spyware maker’s immunity claim

The US Supreme Court has quashed spyware maker NSO Group’s argument that it cannot be held legally responsible for using WhatsApp technology to deploy its Pegasus snoop-ware on users’ phones. Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary sued the notorious Isreal-based software Read More …

Toyota, Mercedes, BMW API flaws exposed owners’ personal info

Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API security vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to perform malicious activity, ranging from unlocking, starting, and tracking cars to exposing customers’ personal information. The security flaws impacted well-known brands, including BMW, Roll Read More …