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    Shopify faces privacy lawsuit for collecting customer data
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    Shopify faces privacy lawsuit for collecting customer data

    Posted: April 23, 2025 by Pieter Arntz

    Shopify is facing a class action lawsuit that could change the way globally active companies can be held accountable

    4.8 million healthcare records left freely accessible
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    4.8 million healthcare records left freely accessible

    Posted: December 13, 2024 by Pieter Arntz

    Care1, a Canadian healthcare solutions provider left a cloud storage instance freely accessible and unencrypted for anyone to find.

    Medical testing company LifeLabs failed to protect customer data, report finds
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    Medical testing company LifeLabs failed to protect customer data, report finds

    Posted: November 27, 2024 by Pieter Arntz

    LifeLabs managed to hold up a report about a ransomware incident in court for four years. It’s now been published.

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    Posted: November 6, 2024 by Pieter Arntz

    Small businesses have the same security problems as big corporations, but not the budget or staff to match. Here are some tips to help.

    “Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach
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    “Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach

    Posted: April 23, 2024 by Pieter Arntz

    UnitedHealth has made an announcement about the stolen data in the ransomware attack on subsidiary Change Healthcare.

    PharMerica breach impacts almost 6 million people
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    PharMerica breach impacts almost 6 million people

    Posted: May 17, 2023 by Pieter Arntz

    US pharmacy giant PharMerica has notified over 5.8 million people about a security incident in which it says personal information and medical information…

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    Posted: August 3, 2022 by Malwarebytes Labs

    After the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) made a huge splash weeks ago when it told Google and Apple to pull TikTok from their…

    Criminals are applying for remote work using deepfake and stolen identities, says FBI
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    Criminals are applying for remote work using deepfake and stolen identities, says FBI

    Posted: June 30, 2022 by Malwarebytes Labs

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    SSNDOB stolen data marketplace shut down by global law enforcement operation

    Posted: June 8, 2022 by Christopher Boyd

    The United States Department of Justice has announced a major takedownof a criminal marketplace that traded Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Not…

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    Posted: May 24, 2022 by Pieter Arntz

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