Security researchers had matched email addresses to account names, providing an indication that the data leak was legitimate, but Twitter says that the data was gathered via a variety of publicly available sources.
Latest Twitter privacy breach exposed the inappropriate use of phone numbers and email addresses to serve up targeted ads to users. This data was collected for the purpose of the platform's two-factor authentication.
Twitter cites abuse of the text messaging 2FA option by bad actors as the reason for the change in policy. The service will still allow free use of authentication apps or hardware security keys as an additional account security layer.
Two Illinois schoolchildren are suing Google for collecting biometric data including face scans of millions of school students through its classroom software tools.
Two Dutch consumer groups, the Privacy Protection Foundation and Consumentenbond, have filed suit against Google over its targeted advertising auctions. The suit is seeking the equivalent of $804 for each Google user harmed by its "constant surveillance" and sharing of personal data.
Two new cyber attack attempts, one in the San Francisco Bay Area and another in Pennsylvania, will keep water supply security in the news. But sensational media headlines may also be stoking an unnecessary level of fear among the general public.
Two prolific ransomware gangs have breached cosmetics giant Estee Lauder at the same time and stolen information in an apparent MOVEit data breach and a confirmed cyber intrusion.
The National Crime Agency has arrested and charged two suspected teenage members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang over the Transport for London cyber attack.
A data breach of the third largest storage space provider and popular moving company, U-Haul, exposed sensitive customer data in the contractual information of 2.2 million users over five months.
American moving and self-storage rental company U-Haul suffered a data breach affecting a customer records system, impacting 67,000 individuals in the US and Canada.
