A cyber attack has compromised UK fashion retailer JD Sports with 10 million records of customer data stolen from online purchases made between November 2018 and October 2020.
Chick-fil-A Hit With Privacy Lawsuit Over Data Collection Embedded in Viral Video Marketing Campaign
Privacy lawsuit alleges that by embedding the Meta pixel on pages hosting its videos, Chick-fil-A violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) which applies only to data collection of personally identifiable information when viewing videos.
A wanted Swiss hacker accessed a federal No Fly List containing millions of records that was sitting on an unsecured server operated by a regional airline company.
The Hive ransomware threat appears to be very much in retreat as the US Department of Justice recently announced the seizure of the group's decryption keys and infrastructure, including its public-facing website, by law enforcement operations.
The WhatsApp GDPR violations pertain to Article 12 and 13(1)(c) requirements that platform users be clearly informed of the legal basis under which their personal information is being collected.
Hackers exfiltrated not just internal game cheats, but the source code that underpins this system for certain Riot Games titles, including League of Legends. This creates the possibility of new game cheats and exploits being developed.
A ransomware attack on KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands shut down 300 restaurants in the United Kingdom and leaked the company's corporate data.
T-Mobile has begun notifying 37 million prepaid and post subscribers whose personal information was accessed by unauthorized bad actors in an unsecured API data breach.
GoTo says that the stolen information varies by product, but encryption keys that were also taken in the hack will grant access to "a portion" of the encrypted backups that were stolen.
Meta is framing the lawsuit as an opening volley in a war against data scraping and invasive surveillance by law enforcement partners. The surveillance company has clearly gone farther than is usual given the creation of some 38,000 fake accounts.
