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…
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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…
Almost four dozen Click2Gov breaches later and almost 300,000 affected; data showing up on dark web – report
Jeff John Roberts reports on a new report and analysis by Gemini Advisory: Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s payment system. Yet, that’s what happened in dozens of towns across the U.S. where cyber crooks have made off with the personal data…
University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital notifies 32,000 patients after employee’s email account was accessed without authorization.
The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that information. We are notifying individuals potentially affected by a recent data security incident in which, for a brief period of time, an employee’s email…