Tag: Personal Information
Over 200 Mn Records of Chinese Citizens on Darknet Sale
Researchers from security firm Cyble stated they discovered threat actors selling more than 200 million records of Chinese Citizens on darknet forums. In a...
Details of 27.7 Mn Texas Drivers Exposed Due to Human Error
Vertafore, a provider of insurance software, recently disclosed that an unknown threat actor group illicitly accessed personal information of 27.7 million Texas-based drivers who...
Marriott International Slapped with $123 Mn GDPR Fine for 2014 Data...
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) imposed £18.4 million ($23.92 million) fine on Marriott International Inc. for violating the GDPR guidelines. The data privacy...
55% Consumers Believe Companies are not Doing Enough to Protect Their...
Data breaches are unfortunate events for any business. Apart from financial damage and heavy fines, data breaches also cause a severe impact on employees’...
CERT NZ Warns About Kiwis’ “Complacency Behavior” Towards Cybersecurity
The Cyber Smart Week for New Zealand, which started on October 19, continues to raise awareness on the importance of security in protecting personal...
Data Breach Affected 2Mn Users of Indian E-Learning Platform Edureka
Security researchers from SafetyDetectives discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server belonging to an Indian e-learning platform Edureka, which exposed the personal information of around 2...
Microsoft’s Unsecured Bing Mobile App Exposes 6.5TB of Users’ Data
Microsoft’s Bing mobile app exposed users’ sensitive information through an unsecured Elastic server. According to researchers at WizCase, the misconfigured server leaked Bing’s mobile...
India: COVID-19 Surveillance Tool Exposes PII of 8 Mn Users
A COVID-19 surveillance tool in the Indian state Uttar Pradesh inadvertently exposed the personal information of over eight million people. According to vpnMentor’s researchers,...
Data Breach Affects PII of 1 Mn OneClass App Users Across...
OneClass app, a Canada-based online learning platform, suffered a data breach after an unsecured Elasticsearch database exposed personal information of over 1 million students...
Over 329,000 Canadians’ Data Compromised After Cyberattack on CPA Canada
The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) disclosed a security breach that affected over 329,000 members and stakeholders of the association. It is said...
