Numerous democracy activists opposed to the Thailand monarchy were targeted during a period of heavy protesting in 2020 and 2021, and had their phones infected with Pegasus spyware.
A 2018 Facebook privacy breach incident that first drew complaints just after the GDPR went into force has finally resulted in the issuance of a penalty. The €251 million GDPR fine stems from a flaw in the platform's "View All" feature.
Misconfigured AWS buckets containing dozens of terabytes worth of social media messages were exposed to the public. The data found in Pentagon's leaked database was gathered by the U.S. military as part of their ongoing efforts to identify so called ‘persons of interest’, revealing the extent of internet surveillance.
Every week, there seems to be a major new data breach that impacts millions. So it’s no surprise that personal cyber insurance are being offered by insurance companies, and the global market could be worth as much as $3.1 billion by the year 2025.
The ransomware attack on AirAsia took place on November 11 and 12, with samples of the stolen personal data being leaked to the group's dark web site about a week later. The posted samples contain employee personal information as well as passenger booking information.
India has now been seeking to establish a single national-level personal data protection bill for about six years. The newest development in this saga is the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, the first attempt introduced to Parliament since the previous effort was withdrawn in 2022.
Personalized marketing has been widely embraced by marketers. However, the trend is getting a privacy blowback as 91% of consumers believed that ads know too much about them.
Research shows most Americans not only becoming concerned and confused but also feeling a lack of control over personal data collection and data privacy in the modern digital economy.
Documents related to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from European Medicines Agency's server were leaked online. EMA said participants' personal data was not exposed.
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora has disclosed that the February 2024 data breach leaked sensitive patient data, including diagnoses and medications. At least 15 pharmaceutical companies have informed over 500,000 individuals that their information was leaked.
