This year has seen the pressures facing business reach new heights. Extremely intricate IT environments require businesses to constantly upgrade their applications. They need to improve on efficiencies and comply with tight regulations while keeping up with modern applications, as well as moving operations to the cloud to stay ahead of competitors. This creates a […]
Privacy
#Privacy: TikTok found secretly transferring user data to China
According to a lawsuit file by a college student TikTok has been secretly transferring user data to China without gaining consent. The class-action lawsuit filed in California, accuses TikTok of secretly harvesting large amounts of personally identifiable user data and sending it to China. In addition, the lawsuit accuses TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, […]
#Privacy: Mixcloud breach exposes millions of users
The personal data of tens of millions of Mixcloud users have been put on sale on the dark web. In a statement, the British streaming service, Mixcloud announced that it has received reports about hackers gaining unauthorised access to some of its systems. “Our understanding at this time is that the incident involves email addresses, […]
#Privacy: New malware campaign found targeting hotel guest data
At least 20 hotels have fallen victim to a new malware campaign impacting hotel guest data in 12 countries. The malware campaign, named RevengeHotels, has been targeting hotels, hostels, hospitality and tourism companies since 2015. Researchers at Kaspersky, have noted that the campaign has since expanded, targeting more than 20 hotels in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, […]
#Privacy: Brexit data company in breach of privacy laws, Canadian regulator claims
According to a report by Canada’s federal privacy commissioner, a Canadian data firm that worked with a pro-Brexit group broke privacy laws. According to a watchdog’s official report, whilst working with a leading pro-Brexit group in Britain and multiple US political campaigns, AggregateIQ broke privacy laws by not taking measures to ensure that it had […]
#Privacy: New privacy bill could strengthen FTC’s ability to enforce digital privacy protections
A new privacy bill would provide citizens the right to request that their personal data be deleted from company records. Introduced by Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) will provide US consumers with foundational data privacy rights, create strong oversight mechanisms and establish […]
#Privacy: Church’s Chicken investigates possible data breach
Church’s chicken, an American restaurant chain has launched an investigation into a possible data breach involving credit and debit card information. The company stated that it had detected unauthorised activity in the IT systems used to process payments at some of its 165 restaurants in the US. “Although our investigation is ongoing, what we currently […]
#Privacy: T-Mobile discloses security breach impacting its prepaid customers
In a data breach notification, T-Mobile disclosed that the account information of a number of its prepaid customers were accessed by an unauthorised party. The company’s cybersecurity team discovered and shut down unauthorised access to information relating to customer’s T-Mobile prepaid wireless account. The exposed information included customer names, billing addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, […]
#Privacy: Over 2.2m gaming and cryptocurrency passwords dumped online
The personal information and passwords of more than 2.2 million users have been published online. Security researcher, Troy Hunt, told Ars Technica on Tuesday, that users of GateHub a cryptocurrency wallet service and EpicBot, a gaming bot provider, had their information posted online despite being heavily encrypted. Hunt uncovered databases online with as many as […]
#Privacy: Founder of pro-Brexit campaign Twitter’s account has been hacked
The Twitter account of Arron Banks, the founder of Leave.EU the pro-Brexit campaign, has been hacked. In what appears to be a targeted attack, thousands of his private messages were uploaded to the internet. In a statement, Mr Banks confirmed that his account had been hacked and that personal data had been obtained and posted […]