Tag: data leak
  • Apr 20, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media,

Facebook’s massive data leak starts to have important knock-on effects – and potentially serious ones for Ireland

A couple of weeks ago, this blog wrote about Facebook’s huge data leak of 533 million personal data records online. As that post noted, despite the huge numbers involved, this wasn’t the first time sensitive data had been exfiltrated from Facebook on this scale. And yet on this occasion something has changed. Certainly not Facebook’s … Continue reading “Facebook’s massive data leak starts to have important knock-on effects – and potentially serious ones for Ireland”

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  • Jun 22, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance,

Billions of internet activity records tracked by Oracle’s BlueKai leaked online

BlueKai, a company bought by Oracle in 2014, has leaked. The database of internet activity records was left on the open web in an unsecured server. The leaked data was discovered by Anurag Sen, who went through the disclosure process with the help of a cybersecurity firm called Hudson Rock. Thus far, Oracle has not … Continue reading “Billions of internet activity records tracked by Oracle’s BlueKai leaked online”

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  • Sep 16, 2019 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

Massive Novaestrat data leak effects over 20 million in Ecuador

A report by ZDNet, with help from vpnMentor’s Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, have uncovered what’s likely the largest data leak in the history of Ecuador. This leak contains roughly 20.8 million user records. Ecuador has a population of 16.6 million so it’s safe to say this leak has impacted a vast majority of the … Continue reading “Massive Novaestrat data leak effects over 20 million in Ecuador”

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