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Facebook shares plunged Monday following revelations that a firm working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign harvested data on 50 million users, as analysts warned the social media giant's...
Political Data-Mining Firm Reportedly Obtained 50 Million Users' Private DetailsFacebook is under fire after reports suggested data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica obtained private information for...
Privacy attorney Kirk Nahra offers an analysis of the New York state attorney general proposing updates to the state's data security laws and issuing a substantial financial penalty in a HIPAA...
Jun Ying, a former Equifax executive, has been hit with criminal charges as well as SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) charges for insider trading relating to his sales of Equifax stocks in...
Plaintiffs Claim Spam and Card Fraud Resulted From Breach of 3 Billion AccountsA federal judge has largely rejected a motion by Verizon to dismiss a class-action suit filed by victims of three...
State Could Seek As Much as $13.5 Million in Civil PenaltiesThe attorney general of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Uber for allegedly violating the state's mandatory breach notification...
Both Governments' Domains Now Centrally Monitored via 'Have I Been Pwned'The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center and Australian Cyber Security Center are using the "Have I Been Pwned"...
RMH Franchise Holdings revealed on Friday that malware had been found on point-of-sale (PoS) systems at the Applebee’s restaurants it operates as a franchise. read more
Equifax said that an additional 2.4 million Americans have been impacted by a 2017 data breach, bringing the total of those implicated to around 148 million people.
Breach Costs Hit $114 Million, But Data Broker Still Sees Revenues RiseEquifax has identified 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and snippets of their driver's license numbers were stolen,...