Matt Weinberger reports: Equifax, the credit agency targeted by an infamous hack that exposed the personal data of nearly half of the population of the United States, revealed more details about the incident in a federal filing on Monday evening. The upshot: The breach was worse than Equifax originally said. The company originally said 143…
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Vector’s legal action against Stuff for data leak could be settled
Stuff reports: Vector and Stuff may reach an agreement outside of court after some of Vector’s customer data was revealed as a result of a data breach. Last week, Stuff revealed that a glitch in an app designed by Vector meant the names, email addresses, physical location and phone numbers of customers who used the app were visible…
The Scariest Data Breach So Far This Year
Ward PLLC begins their article: I could do a blog exclusively on data breaches because they happen so frequently that I’d never run out of material. Wait. Isn’t that what I already do? Okay, let’s continue… On April 19th, the Supreme Court of India’s website was hacked, apparently by “HighTech Brazil Hackteam.” I imagine that they’re either…
Ph: NPC orders Wendy’s PH to inform users affected by data breach
ABS-CBN reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has ordered Wendy’s Philippines to notify users affected by the data breach on its website on April 23. The order dated May 2 was released after the fast food chain notified the commission that its website was infiltrated and that personal data of users were obtained and published…
Do you have a Twitter account? If so, reset your password now
From Twitter, May 3, posted by Paraga: When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it. We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We have fixed the bug, and our investigation shows no indication…
Tencent-Backed Internet Giant Probes Massive User-Data Leak
Lulu Yilu Chen reports: Meituan Dianping, the internet giant backed by China’s most valuable tech corporation, has begun investigating reports of a data breach that exposed the private information of tens of thousands of users. The food-delivery and e-commerce giant said it’s working with police to investigate an alleged leak that’s drawn fire from concerned…