Desjardins Data Breach Figures Out How to Worsen: 2 Million More Affected Drew Wilson | December 11, 2019 While the Desjardins data breach is focused on insurance customers, it seems that credit card holders are also affected. This affects an additional 2 million customers.
TrueDialog Suffers Data Leak: 1 Billion Text Messages Exposed Drew Wilson | December 6, 2019 TrueDialog is the latest company to suffer a data leak. An estimated 1 billion text messages housed in a 602GB database has been exposed.
Open Rights Group Releases Results of What Political Parties Track Drew Wilson | December 5, 2019 The Open Rights Group is releasing results on what they found about the tracking habits of political parties. It’s thanks to provisions in the GDPR.
NSPCC Continues to Insist That Security Will Lead to Child Grooming Drew Wilson | December 4, 2019 The NSPCC of the UK is continuing to insist that Facebook’s plan to add security will lead to child grooming. The “charity” wants Facebook to stop its encryption plan.
2 Executives Fired in Wake of Desjardins Data Breach Drew Wilson | December 3, 2019 There appears to be more movement in the Desjardis data breach. The company has now apparently fired the COO and head of IT.
Mixcloud Suffers Data Breach: 21 Million User Accounts Compromised Drew Wilson | December 1, 2019 DJ mix sharing site, Mixcloud, is the latest to suffer from a data breach. In all, an estimated 21 million accounts have been compromised.
T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach: Over 1 Million Customers Compromised Drew Wilson | November 30, 2019 Major US carrier, T-Mobile, is admitting that they have suffered from a data breach. Over 1 million customers have had their information compromised.
Researchers Uncover a 1.2 Billion “Enriched” Account Data Leak Drew Wilson | November 26, 2019 Security researchers have uncovered a rather large data leak recently. Over 1.2 billion people have been affected by it.
IBM Levels Criticism Towards Australia’s Anti-Security Laws Drew Wilson | November 25, 2019 The effort to repeal Australia’s anti-encryption law got a major boost. IBM has come out against the heavily criticized laws.
Search Engine DuckDuckGo Implements Smarter Encryption Drew Wilson | November 22, 2019 Privacy orientated search engine, DuckDuckGo, is implementing Smarter Encryption. The system encourages users to use HTTPS versions of websites.
