Brands need to safeguard their social presence, protect their customers’ data and avoid account takeover fraud after massive data leaks like Facebook’s.
In a massive data leak, details of 115 million Pakistani mobile subscribers have surfaced online after a hacker tried to sell the package for 300 bitcoins equivalent to $2.1 million.
Brazil's Ministry of Health website data leak exposed medical records of 243 million living and deceased Brazilians after database access credentials were saved in the source code.
The first signs of legal action against Facebook over the recent data leak have appeared, as an EU digital privacy group has announced plans to take the social media giant to court in Ireland.
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered data leak from Baidu and other apps that could allow user tracking across devices for a lifetime. Over 6 million users in the United States were affected.
LabCorp experienced a second data leak in a year with more damaging information exposed this round that includes medical records and social security numbers.
A leading UK software company exposed personal information and legal documents belonging to over 190 law firms through a data leak from an unsecured online database.
Microsoft Power Apps appears to list all data types as public unless the default settings are changed. The data leak exposed several coronavirus tracing and vaccination portals, as well as at least one job applicant database that contained social security numbers.
Prestige Software exposed sensitive personal and credit card information of over 10 million clients and database with 5.8 million customer records from the RedDoorz breach was put on sale.
One would hope that credit bureau Experian had learned a lesson about data leaks but the agency has a new API security vulnerability that appears to have leaked the credit scores of nearly every American that has one.
