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Exclusive: A server stored teenagers' Apple ID email addresses and plaintext passwords.
Last year's breach affected more than half of Americans. Here's exactly what was exposed.
London's Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has been fined £120,000 for a data leak identifying 943 people who owned vacant properties in the borough.
Exclusive: Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to "build a three-dimensional picture" on millions of people.
Verizon report highlights risk of human error and misuse
A data breach is any incident where confidential or personal data is exposed, either intentionally or accidentally. A similar term is 'data leak'
Not TECHNICALLY a "breach," but pissed-off users aren't really seeing the difference.
In lawsuits about data breaches, the issue of harm has confounded courts. Harm is central to whether plaintiffs have standing to sue in federal court and whethe
Pwned credit-score biz quietly admits more info lost
This is starting to get sad.
Massive HealthCare Breach Exposed Data of Half the Norway's Population
GIANT list of education and ed-tech breaches!
On January 3, 2018, select DHS employees received notification letters that they may have been impacted by a privacy incident related to the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Case Management System. DHS has received new information about this privacy incident that clarifies the impacted population.
Not long ago trumpeted as the world’s largest biometric database, India’s Aadhaar system covering 1.2bn citizens is rapidly acquiring a less impressive reputation as the easiest to breach.
DHS 'fesses up 8 months after finding ex-staffer had copy of investigations database
It was only last November that the UIDAI asserted that “Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure and there has been no data leak or breach at UIDAI.” Today, The Tribune “purchased” a service being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp that provided unrestricted access to de
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting schools across the United States and holding student data for ransom.
The data includes usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
A huge database containing vast amounts of revealing data on Americans' everyday lives has been left exposed on Amazon Web Services.