personal data
1.1 million SCUF Gaming customer records exposed online due to faulty sever security
Earlier this month, SCUF Gaming, a manufacturer of high-end gaming controllers for PC, Xbox and PS4 announced a security incident that left the personal information more than 1 million customers exposed online ...
Data Leak: Private information of 14 million Key Ring users exposed
Five misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets revealing private data of Key Ring users were discovered by vpnMentor researchers in January. Like many similar apps, Key Ring lets users store digital ...
Another Marriott Data Breach, Zoom-Bombing, Economic Stimulus Scams
In episode 115 for April 6th 2020: The latest on yet another Marriott data breach, what you need to know about Zoom-Bombing and other Zoom privacy concerns, and new warnings about US ...
Maine Suit Challenges Privacy Regulation on First Amendment Grounds
When it comes to First Amendment free speech rights, the Supreme Court has sided mostly with consumers. Will that change with a Maine case? In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down ...
Data breach hits San Diego low-income preschool provider
An intruder illegally accessed an employee email account at San Diego, California-based preschool education provider Enrichment Systems, Inc (EES) and may have viewed sensitive personal information of parents and students, the firm ...
Unsecured Database with Personal Info on 56 Million U.S. Citizens Found Online
A vast database containing information scraped from the public domain on 56.25 million U.S. citizens has been found online, with no security and serving an IP address belonging to Chinese online retailer ...
Mystery Server Found to Host Private Data in the Open for 1.2 Billion People
Personal data for 1.2 billion people was discovered in an open Elasticsearch server. It’s unclear who owned the server, how the data got there, who had access to it, and how long ...
Adobe exposes 7 million Creative Cloud accounts online
Creative software giant Adobe has issued a security notice confirming the embarrassing exposure of over 7 million user accounts, potentially leaving users vulnerable to phishing scams. On Friday, an Adobe blog entry ...
What’s all the talk about TalkTalk?
Four years after the news broke that the personal data of over 150,000 UK TalkTalk customers had been stolen, the cost of the breach, both financially and reputationally, is still being reported ...
GDPR checklist for small businesses
So, you’re a small business or start-up. You know that you need to comply with the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), because you process EU residents’ personal data, but the trouble ...
