A data breach affecting food delivery company GrubHub has leaked the personal information of customers, merchants, and drivers after an unauthorized entity gained access using a third-party service provider’s account.
Apple is feeling pressure to reaffirm its privacy stance due to two recent news stories: its cooperation with subpoenas from the Trump administration that saw phone data handed over, and a case in which iPhone repair techs stole compromising photos.
Since 2019, Facebook has been talking about adding end-to-end encryption to all its messaging services. It appears that the government of the United Kingdom would prefer that these plans go no further.
Privacy groups are raising alarms about some EU aid programs. Funds, equipment and training are reportedly going to repressive governments and being used explicitly for domestic surveillance.
The Maze ransomware gang has recently announced that it is formally winding down its cyber crime operation. The group made news in 2019 when it became the first high-profile hacking group to exfiltrate sensitive files.
Snack giant Mondelēz International has suffered a third-party law firm data breach from its legal services provider, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, leaking sensitive personal information of over 50,000 current and former employees.
Since March 2019, hackers have been targeting the UN and affiliated humanitarian aid organizations with a sophisticated, mobile-centric phishing campaign to harvest Microsoft Office 365 login credentials.
Small businesses with under AUD 3 million annual turnover have been exempt from Australia's Privacy Act terms to date, but that has been taken off the table in a new round of reforms that could become law in 2024.
While many privacy concerns remain unaddressed for contact tracing apps, experts are now questioning the technical and logistics issues to justify their existence.
A shocking whistleblower report from Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, a well-known cybersecurity expert who served as Twitter's head of security from mid-2020 to early 2022, asserts that the company is "grossly negligent" in "several areas" of information security and privacy protections.
