Jam Kotenko reports: When Facebook came clean about a recent security bug that caused the exposure of 6 million users’ personal information to their contacts, they softened the blow by saying that the effect of the bug was probably minimal, since the people who likely received their friends’ data could have already had access to the contact…
Category: Business Sector
UK: Tesco employees details discarded in Westcliff street
From Echo News: A filing cabinet found in a Southend street contained copies of passports, driving licences and bank details of employees at Tesco in Westcliff, it has been claimed. The cabinet had personal information of up to 20 individuals, all of whom are current or former employees of the Tesco Express, in London Road….
Nearly 3,000 Social Security Numbers Taken From Hendrick House
David Ade reports (all typos are in the original): The Hendrick House is trying to reach more than a decades worth of people who lived in the dorms, and tell them to keep a close watch on their credit reports. The breach happened sometime in 2011, and University of Illinois Police detectives tell us, a former…
IN: Pune firm wins Rs 60 lakh in data theft case
Abhijit Sathe reports: The state IT authority has ordered a Japanese engineering company’s Indian arm to pay a Pune firm Rs 40 lakh [US $6748.15] for stealing the latter’s confidential data, including e-mails, in bid to snatch its customers. Endo Kogyo India Private Limited carried out the alleged theft of business secrets with the help…
What do consumers expect in the way of data security and privacy protections when they sign up for a premium subscription service?
What do consumers expect in the way of data security and privacy protections when they sign up for a premium subscription service? I was reading up on the class action lawsuit against LinkedIn following their breach last year, and discovered that the plaintiff had retained Serge Egelman, who conducted two new surveys in April on…
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Six Million Email Addresses and Telephone Numbers
Kara Swisher reports: Facebook reported on Friday a bug in its system “that may have allowed some of a person’s contact information (email or phone number) to be accessed by people who either had some contact information about that person or some connection to them.” The bug, which was reported via Facebook’s crowdsourced, White Hat security researcher program,…