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Legislation introduced to protect personally identifiable health data

March 7, 2023

The UPHOLD Privacy Act was introduced to the Senate to prevent companies from profiting off of identifiable health data for advertising purposes.

IC3 issues warning on deepfake use in remote work applications

Madeline Lauver

June 29, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has warned about fraudulent job applications using deepfakes and stolen PII to attempt to earn IT and software development roles.

Secrets in code make passwords vulnerable to hackers

Security Staff

June 2, 2022

The “Secrets Insights Across the Software Supply Chain'' report from Apiiro discovered vulnerable personally identifiable information (PII) and passwords stored in private and public repositories.

Facebook breach exposes 533 million users

April 6, 2021

The personal data and phone numbers of hundreds of millions of Facebook users were posted for free in a hacking forum over the weekend. The data includes personal information of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including more than 32 million records on users in the U.S. 11 million on users in the U.K., and 6 million on users in India.

GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach - 28,000 Customers Affected

May 6, 2020

GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest domain registrar and a web hosting company that provides services to roughly 19 million customers around the world, has confirmed a data breach.

Outsourcing Data: Don't Take a Fairytale Approach

Adult Live-Streaming Website Leaks 10.88 Billion Records

May 5, 2020

SafetyDetective's security research team, led by Anurag Sen, has discovered a significant data leak stretching into 10 billion records at adult live-streaming website CAM4.com, belonging to Irish company Granity Entertainment.

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Data Breach Report: Kinomap, Exercise App, Exposes 42 Million User Records

April 23, 2020

Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team recently discovered a data breach belonging to the exercise technology company Kinomap. In total, the database was leaking more than 42 million records, affecting people all over the world.

309 Million Facebook User Profiles Sold on Dark Web and Hacker Forums

April 22, 2020

Threat actors are selling more than 309 million Facebook profiles for $623 on dark web sites and hacker forums.

Top 3 Misconceptions About Data After Death - Security Magazine

Top 10 Largest Data Breaches

April 22, 2020

A new study by Omnisend reveals the US companies that have had the largest number of data breaches.

General Electric Discloses Data Breach Affecting Present and Former Employees

April 9, 2020

General Electric (GE), a global Fortune 500 company, has acknowledged a data breach affecting present and former employees and their beneficiaries. Between February 3-14, 2020, an unauthorized user gained access to the email account of Canon Business Process Services, which GE contracts with to process employee documents.

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