Tinder, Grindr and OKCupid were among the dating apps found to funnel sensitive personal data like gender, age, IP address and GPS location to major advertising and behavior analytics platforms.
Many of the most popular iPhone apps are, without user privacy consent, using “session replay” technology that makes it possible to record their every touch, tap or swipe.
Privacy lawsuit that is attempting to hold Facebook liable for the Cambridge Analytica breach has attached CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant, claiming that he played a key role in decisions.
In the case of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the lawsuit asserts that Zuckerberg personally oversaw the engineering work that ultimately led to the exposure of Facebook user data.
Marks & Spencer shut down its systems after experiencing an apparent ransomware cyber incident that disrupted order collections and contactless payment.
The sensitive personal and financial information of 672,075 people was compromised during the August 2025 Marquis cyberattack, which was previously misattributed to a Russian ransomware gang.
The 2018 Marriott data breach was one of the biggest of its type in history, and was initially looking at receiving one of the biggest fines of £99 million. However, the UK ICO has reduced the penalty to £18.4 million.
Marriott International has approved a $52 million FTC settlement to conclude an investigation into over half a decade of data breaches that rocked the hotel franchise.
With a major GDPR fine of $123 million on Marriott following an even bigger $230 million fine on British Airways, businesses worldwide are now on notice to have adequate security safeguards in place to protect user data.
Marriott suffered its second large data breach through two employees’ login credentials that exposed personal information of 5.2 million guests from their customer loyalty accounts.
