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Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack

Posted on May 24, 2020 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Online education site EduCBA has started notifying customers that they are resetting their passwords after suffering a data breach. EduCBA is an online education site based out of India that offers over 2,500 online courses and job oriented learning programs focus on finance, technology, and business to their 500,000 learners. Yesterday, EduCBA began…

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Five months after they were notified of a data breach, Prime Communication notifies 8,000 employees

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Dissent

Last month, I pointed readers to a news report out of Moore, Oklahoma about how Tonya Smith, a former employee of Prime Communications, had reportedly been sent an email with personal information on 8,000 of their employees.  The mistake occurred on December 11, 2019 after Smith had been terminated by Prime for performance issues. In…

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Popular teen app Wishbone hacked (again), 40 million users’ info being given away

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Dissent

We know that no security is perfect, but when a company collecting and storing teenagers’ data has repeated breaches, it’s cause for concern – and possible investigation by federal and state regulators. In 2017, we learned that the popular teen quiz app, Wishbone, had been “hacked.” According to reports at the time, hackers snagged 2.2…

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ADT employee spied on customers for years through their security cameras, lawsuits claim

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Dissent

Ron Hurtibise reports: Hundreds of customers of ADT Security Services were spied on through security cameras installed inside and outside of their homes, two federal lawsuits filed Monday are claiming. ADT, headquartered in Boca Raton, “failed to provide rudimentary safeguards” to prevent an employee from gaining remote access to the customers’ cameras over a seven-year period,…

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BlockFi’s Data Breach May Allow Criminals to Extort Rich Clients

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Dissent

Andrey Shevchenko reports: Crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on Tuesday that it suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in physical danger. According to its incident report, some of the company’s client data was breached through a SIM card swap attack performed on one of its employees. Read more on CoinTelegraph.

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Canada fines Facebook almost $6.5 million over ‘false’ data privacy claims

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Dissent

Rachel England reports: Facebook is coughing up for another fine. This time the social network is handing over CAD$9 million (US$6.5 million / £5.3 million) to Canada as part of a settlement over the way it handled users’ personal information between August 2012 and June 2018. According to Canada’s independent Competition Bureau, Facebook “made false or misleading claims…

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