Reddit Data Breaches: Emails, Passwords leaked
The US social news site Reddit announced on Wednesday that several of its systems were hacked, resulting in the theft of some user data, including the e-mail address currently used by...
Category: Data Leak
UK e-commerce provider data breaches: 1.3 million online fashion shoppers leaked
Recently, many shoppers who spend on British online clothing and accessories shopping sites have experienced an unpleasant thing because their personal information has been confirmed to have been leaked. The...
Nearly 45,000 records of US health care company, Blue Springs Family Care were leaked
Blue Springs Family Care, a Missouri-based healthcare company, was founded in 1979 to provide home medical services to residents in Jackson County. Recent news reports show that Blue Springs Family...
ADGUARD: Big Star Labs develop multiple apps and browser extensions for stealing private information
Advertising blockade software developer ADGUARD recently released a report saying that advertising companies have developed a variety of applications and extensions for stealing private information. These apps and browser extensions...
Facebook blocks data-analytics apps due to violate sharing of public User-Data policy
According to Bloomberg, Facebook has temporarily frozen several apps developed by Harvard researchers. Earlier, the US Wall Street Journal reported that relevant researchers had contact with government departments to share public...
Over 100 manufacturing companies leak confidential data: include Tesla, Toyota, Ford
Security experts at UpGuard, a network security company, reported that confidential data from more than 100 automakers were leaked, including General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Tesla, Toyota, ThyssenKrupp, and Volkswagen....
Game developers remove data collection tracking software
Dozens of games on the Steam platform were found using Red Shell tracking software to track user behaviour and collect user data. These games include Conan Exiles, The Elder Scrolls Online,...
LabCorp hacked causing millions of customers to face personal information disclosure
The Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (usually known as LabCorp) is an independent clinical laboratory and the largest independent medical laboratory in the United States, based in Burlington, North Carolina,...
MedEvolve leaked over 200,000 patient information due to server vulnerabilities
MedEvolve is a medical software company based in Arkansas, USA. According to a press release issued on July 10, 2018, MedEvolve faced a data breach that exposed the patient’s personal information. On...
Login information for a large number of Mega accounts has been compromised
Mega, a company founded in New Zealand that provides online cloud storage and files hosting services, is currently found to have thousands of account credentials on its platform that have...
Purdue University data breach: 26,000 students personal details leaked
Data breaches are not always the result of specific malicious acts. On the contrary, sometimes it is only because of a small human error. Recently, a data breach occurred at...
Hackers sell US military drone documents for $150
The MQ-9 drone (codename: Reaper) is a highly lethal new crewless combat aircraft capable of performing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. In March 2007, the US Air Force formed...
Facebook was fined $660,000 by UK regulators due to the data breach
British Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham announced on Wednesday that she intends to impose a fine on Facebook for violating the data protection law. Currently, her office is investigating how the consulting...
German hosting service provider DomainFactory leaked a large amount of customer
According to Heise, another company was indeed the victim of a data breach. The victim company is one of Germany’s largest managed service providers, DomainFactory, a subsidiary of GoDaddy (acquired by...
Australian Department sues Facebook for violating privacy policy
Litigation fund provider IMF Bentham said on Tuesday that the company is funding a complaint against a social networking site Facebook accused of violating Australia’s privacy policy. The company said...
