The FTC has found that not only has Facebook not fully complied with its obligations, but that it has also been in violation of children's privacy regulations with its Messenger Kids app.
T-Mobile data breach second data breach of 2023 took place from February to March. Those impacted likely had their Social Security numbers, ID numbers, account pins and other sensitive data revealed.
Roughly in keeping with numbers seen in recent years, the Google Play Store announced that it blocked 1.43 million bad apps and banned 173,000 malicious or policy-violating developer accounts in 2022.
Unknown hackers reportedly breached AT&T customer email accounts for months via an API security issue to conduct a massive crypto theft scheme estimated at nearly $20 million.
New Health Data Privacy Law in Washington Protects Location Records, Ensures Access to Personal Data
The state of Washington's new health data privacy law expands protections for residents, including restrictions on the sharing of location data. The bill specifically addresses sources that fall into the "HIPAA gap," such as fitness apps and period trackers.
Attackers approach targets for account takeover pretending to be a member of the Meta tech support team, using Facebook profiles that they have created that have a post history that makes it appear as if they are a legitimate employee.
A Vietnamese threat actor infected at least 500,000 devices worldwide within three months in a malverposting campaign leveraging inappropriate Facebook Ads.
Germany is querying ChatGPT's GDPR compliance in terms of required access to stored personal information, its efforts to inform data subjects of their rights under the law, and how it is handling the data of minors.
Nearly every tech company with some sort of social platform is rushing to get their own AI chatbot in place. Snap users are expressing concern about how it interacts with children, the level of access it has to personal information, and overbearing chat interactions.
Pan-European air traffic control agency Eurocontrol confirms that a cyber attack by pro-Russian hackers Killnet interrupted its website and web availability, making operations “difficult.”
