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Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Potentially ExposedThere's been a potential leak of personally identifiable information from Instagram, but it's not clear yet whether the data on 49 million users...

Email Addresses, Phone Numbers for 49 Million People Potentially ExposedThere's been a potential leak of personally identifiable information from Instagram, but it's not clear yet whether the data...

Salesforce Shuts Down Instances After Database Script Erroneously Enabled All Permissions on User Profiles read more

Records included not only the individuals’ name and email address but also their employment history, salary, and phone number.

Trustwave unveiled new database security scanning and testing software that helps organizations better protect critical data assets hosted on-site or by major cloud service providers from advanced...

Put on your detective hat - the researchers who found it say it's full of people's data, but not who it belongs to.

Researchers Locate an Unprotected 24GB Database With Names, Addresses and IncomesAn unsecured database hosted on Microsoft's cloud platform contained personal information on nearly 80 million U.S....

A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of...

Researchers have stumbled upon an unprotected database storing information on the individuals living in roughly 80 million households in the United States. read more

Questions Raised About Use of Android Location Data by Law EnforcementGoogle is facing questions from Congress about Sensorvault, its database that stores the geolocation data of millions of...