Tag: data breach
  • Dec 31, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backed project suffers data breach, 930,000 children affected

Get Schooled, an educational non profit organization created as a partnership between The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom with significant help from AT&T has suffered a data breach which revealed personal identifiable information on hundreds of thousands of students: with initial estimates putting the total number of affected children at around 930,000. The … Continue reading “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backed project suffers data breach, 930,000 children affected”

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  • Aug 21, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Experian breach affects over 24 million customers and businesses in South Africa

Consumer credit reporting agency Experian has suffered a data breach at their South African branch. The Experian data breach didn’t expose consumer credit or financial information, but other personal information which could be used in phishing attempts were definitely exposed. Experian noted in a statement that they fell victim to a social engineering attack where … Continue reading “Experian breach affects over 24 million customers and businesses in South Africa”

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  • Jul 29, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach

Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This wouldn’t be the first time that a more public facing hack ends up being a smokescreen for a more targeted attack. In the recent Twitter … Continue reading “The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach”

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  • Jul 24, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Study confirms companies with poor privacy practices are more likely to suffer data breach

A new whitepaper by Osana confirms what many of us already suspected: that companies with poor privacy practices are 80% more likely to suffer a data breach. To back up the intuitive conclusion that companies with poorer privacy practices are more likely to suffer a data breach, Osana first started by assigning a privacy score … Continue reading “Study confirms companies with poor privacy practices are more likely to suffer data breach”

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  • May 19, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

UK’s largest airline, easyJet, reveals January 2020 breach of 9 million customer records

The largest airline in the United Kingdom, easyJet, revealed that they had been hacked by a “sophisticated attack” in January of 2020. All in all, approximately 9 million customers were affected by the EasyJet hack. The affected customers had their travel records and emails exposed. The EasyJet disclosure also revealed that 2,208 of the 9 … Continue reading “UK’s largest airline, easyJet, reveals January 2020 breach of 9 million customer records”

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  • Aug 28, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

A major security breach raises a key question: what happens when your biometric data is exfiltrated from a system?

It’s no secret that password security is often terrible. Good passwords – ones that are long and include a mix of lower case, upper case, numbers, and special characters – are hard to remember unless you use a password manager, which few seem to do. As a result, people tend to choose easy-to-guess passwords like … Continue reading “A major security breach raises a key question: what happens when your biometric data is exfiltrated from a system?”

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  • Dec 4, 2018 |
  • Chris Miller |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Quora Data Breach Affects 100 Million Users

On December 3rd, 2018, the infamous Question and Answer site, Quora announced that the private messages and account information from around 100 million users was exposed by a “malicious third party.” The breach was first discovered by Quora on Friday, according to chief executive, Adam D’Angelo, and an investigation is still underway. In addition, D’Angelo … Continue reading “Quora Data Breach Affects 100 Million Users”

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