Several email services including top email apps like Edison, Cleanfox and Slice are selling data products using data scraped from the inboxes of their users.
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New report shows a massive spike in human farms used to launch online fraud attacks after analyzing more than 1.3 billion individual transactions between October and December 2019.
For nine months leading up to Facebook's biggest data breach of 29 million user accounts, Facebook had been repeatedly warned about a security flaw which later ended up being exploited by hackers.
Hackers used data from 2015 Ashley Madison data breach to conduct cyber extortion scams, asking users to pay more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin.
By searching the internet, hackers have begun hijacking smart building access control systems to recruit these IoT devices into botnets for launching DDoS attacks.
DPC has opened a privacy investigation against Google over location tracking and its capacity to collect massive location data that could be in breach of GDPR regulations.
Researchers used PolicyLint app to parse through privacy policies of 11,430 Android apps and found self-contradictory language in user data collection practices on 1,618 of them.
Cisco Data Privacy Benchmark Study 2020 shows businesses are seeing big financial benefits from data privacy practices at an average return of 2.7 times on their privacy spend.
UN suffered a major data breach from unpatched SharePoint vulnerability that compromised staff information, commercial contract data, and health insurance data on 42 servers in 3 branches.
Flaws in Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature allow hackers to track users as they navigate the Internet and gain access to their cross-site browsing history.
