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Swedish cryptocurrency exchange QuickBit has confirmed that around 300,000 personal data records of customers were left exposed on the Internet after an external contractor engaged by the exchange uploaded the data in an unsecured MongoDB database while carrying out a... Read more
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Lancaster University announced on Monday that it suffered “a sophisticated and malicious phishing attack” that compromised student applicant data records for 2019 and 2020 entry as well as student records and ID documents that were stored in its student records... Read more
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US credit rating agency Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay up to $700m (£561m) to the Federal Trade Commission and state governments as a final settlement amount for the massive data breach it suffered in 2017 that compromised personal details... Read more
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The Met Police announced recently that its news platform MyNewsDesk was accessed without authorisation by unknown individuals who posted several messages that were distributed on the force’s Twitter account and via email. On Saturday, Twitter users were taken aback when... Read more
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A large number of users and security experts from across the world have expressed concern over the privacy policies of AI face editor app FaceApp even as the app’s new age filter has made it go viral across the world,... Read more
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The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a fine of £80,000 to London-based real estate agency Life at Parliament View Ltd for failing to appropriately secure personal and financial information of landlords and tenants between March 2015 and February 2017. The... Read more
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Google has removed seven “stalker apps” from its Play Store after security researchers at Avast warned that the apps were being used by Android users to stalk employees, romantic partners, or kids. The seven stalker apps were installed on Android... Read more
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The massive data breach suffered by the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) between August 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019, that compromised personal and financial information of nearly 20 million patients also compromised the personal information of 2.2 million additional... Read more
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The Wood Green Crown Court in London has fined a former motor industry employee named Mustafa Kasim £25,500 under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and has also ordered him to pay £8,000 in costs for accessing “thousands of customer... Read more
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Security researchers recently detected and blocked a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting financial institutions that involved the use of SHTML file attachments (server-parsed HTML) and JavaScript for obfuscating a malicious URL by online fraudsters. Researchers at Mimecast noted that the use... Read more
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