AFP reports: France’s data protection agency said Thursday that it had fined the US ride-hailing group Uber 400,000 euros ($460,000) over a 2016 data breach that exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide. Uber drew the wrath of users and regulators after the company waited a year before revealing in…
Month: December 2018
SG: Potential data breach after travel agency employee loses hard disk
David Sun reports: The authorities are investigating a potential data breach after a travel agency employee lost a hard disk containing personal details of clients. The employee of Insight Vacations had taken the disk out of the office without authorisation and lost it in a taxi on the way home. The disk, which has not…
Data Leak Exposes Australian Psychologists’ Home Addresses
Jeremy Kirk reports: A large health insurer in Western Australia inadvertently shared the home addresses of some psychologists to a web-based appointment booking service, the West Australian reported Wednesday. The health insurer, HBF, passed names and addresses for psychologists to Whitecoat, a company that develops an online booking and patient review mobile application and website. The details…
Twitter tumbles on concerns about hacking activity, data theft attempt
TWITTER Inc shares fell almost 7 per cent on Monday after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers and, in what appeared to be an unrelated issue, a security firm said hackers used the platform to try to steal user data. Twitter said in a blog that it…
Hammer Nutrition notifies customers after discovering hack of
A reader kindly sent in this notification from Hammer Nutrition: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL DATA BREACH Dear Valued Customer, It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform you of an incident involving access to information associated with online purchases made on our website www.hammernutrition.com. We are providing notice to you and other potentially affected customers…
NASA discloses data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) admitted today to getting hacked earlier this year. In an internal memo sent to all employees, the agency said that an unknown intruder gained access to one of its servers storing the personal data of current and former employees. Social Security numbers were also compromised, NASA…