Results for 'personally identifiable information'
What is personal information? Or personally identifiable information? In legal terms, it depends
April 11, 2019 - In early March, cybersecurity professionals around the world filled the San Francisco Moscone Convention Center’s sprawling exhibition halls to discuss and...
Information stealer compromises legitimate sites to attack other sites
June 5, 2023 - Security researchers at Akamai have published a blog about a new Magecart-alike web skimming campaign that uses compromised legitimate sites as command...
Advertising Brokers: A Background Information
October 29, 2015 - This post is intended to give you some background information about advertisement brokers, the men and women that are in the...
Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext, Meta fined
October 1, 2024 - The Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.
My child had her data stolen—here’s how to protect your kids from identity theft
August 21, 2024 - Getting a notification that your child's data has been stolen is sadly becoming more commonplace. Here are some things you can do to avoid identity theft.
Stolen data from scraping service National Public Data leaked online
August 8, 2024 - Cybercriminals have leaked records from National Public Data, a data scraping service that provides background checks.
“Nearly all” AT&T customers had phone records stolen in new data breach disclosure
July 12, 2024 - AT&T has told customers about yet another data breach. This time call and text records of nearly all customers were stolen.
Change Healthcare confirms the customer data stolen in ransomware attack
June 24, 2024 - Change Healthcare has detailed the types of medical and patient data that was stolen in a recent ransomware attack.
“Substantial proportion” of Americans may have had health and personal data stolen in Change Healthcare breach
April 23, 2024 - UnitedHealth has made an announcement about the stolen data in the ransomware attack on subsidiary Change Healthcare.
19 million plaintext passwords exposed by incorrectly configured Firebase instances
March 21, 2024 - Researchers scanned the internet for incorrectly configured Firebase instances and what they found was frightening.
