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Addresses and Names of Customers Exposed by Bethesda in Support Tickets

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After asking for their customers' personal information in Fallout 76 support tickets, American video game publisher Bethesda Software LLC exposed those tickets to public access allowing anyone to view, edit, and resolve them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 2018

Hacker-besieged DNA data tucked away under military care

On Wednesday, Genomics England – an ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits – proudly announced that it had completed the “100,000 Genomes Project” started in 2013, having sequenced 100,000 whole genomes in the National Health Service (NHS).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 07, 2018

Facebook staff’s private emails published by fake news inquiry

Want to know what Mark Zuckerberg and his underlings really think about us users? Get ready to read ’em and weep: against the wishes of the Facebook CEO, the UK parliament’s inquiry into fake news has published confidential correspondence between Zuck and his staff.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2018

Uber fined £900,000 by UK, Dutch privacy regulators over 2016 data breach

Uber has been fined over £900,000 by UK and Dutch watchdogs in relation to a 2016 data breach which impacted customer data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2018

German Regulator Fines Firm for GDPR Failings

A German privacy regulator has issued its first GDPR fine after a hacker stole unencrypted data on hundreds of thousands of customers of a local chat app.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 26, 2018

LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those suggestions in the first place.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 25, 2018

USPS finally fixes website flaw that exposed 60 million users' data

The US Postal Service has fixed a security bug in its website that allowed anyone with an account to see the account details of the site's 60 million users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2018

Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs

In April, with the GDPR deadline and its requirement for data portability looming, Instagram released the long-anticipated download your data tool. The feature gave users the ability to download images, posts and comments.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2018

Instagram bug inadvertently exposed some user's passwords

According to The Information, Instagram has suffered a serious security leak of its own that could've exposed user's passwords. While Facebook recently had a much more serious problem linked to its "View As" tool that was being actively exploited by... someone, the Instagram issue is linked to its tool that allows users to download a copy of their data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2018

Canada Post leaked personal data, orders of thousands of cannabis smokers

The decision to make recreational cannabis legal in Ontario, Canada, has been fraught with problems and now has been tarnished by a data breach at Canada Post.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2018

Privacy International Files GDPR Complaints

Privacy International has filed complaints against seven companies including Experian, Equifax and Oracle for alleged contravention of the GDPR.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2018

Should company bosses face jail for mishandling your privacy?

Mark Z, how do you feel about orange? Like, say, in a jumpsuit style? Kidding! No court has found that you, the Facebook CEO, has purposefully misled the government about how your company did/did not protect consumers’ data during, say, the multifaceted, ever-unfolding, Cambridge Analytica privacy debacle.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 05, 2018

GDPR Alert as Average ICO Fines Double in a Year

The value of fines issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has increased 24% in the year to September 30 versus the previous year, according to new data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2018

EU Laws Could Spell Double Trouble for Firms

Legal experts have warned organizations in certain highly regulated industries that they could be fined twice under new EU security laws with huge maximum penalties.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2018

Morrisons Loses Insider Breach Liability Appeal

Supermarket giant Morrisons has been told by the Court of Appeal that it is liable for the actions of a malicious insider who breached data on 100,000 employees, setting up a potential hefty class action pay-out.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2018

UK’s MoD Exposed in 37 Security Breaches: Report

The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) appears to have exposed highly sensitive data and systems to the risk of compromise after reports revealed 37 breaches of security protocol last year.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 16, 2018

Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew

After months of hiding a relative pipsqueak of a data breach that happened through a Google+ API, Google on Monday ‘fessed up, said it was shuttering its Facebook-wannabe-but-never-gonna-happen social media platform, and was looking at a potential class action lawsuit that got filed within hours of the breach disclosure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 10, 2018

Amazon employee shared email addresses with third-party seller

In September, Amazon started investigating reports that some of its employees in the US and China have been leaking data to third-party sellers in exchange for money. Now, the e-commerce giant has notified affected customers that an employee shared their email addresses with a third-party seller.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2018

Independence Blue Cross Breach Exposed 17K Records

Independence Blue Cross, a Philadelphia-based health insurer notified thousands of its members this week that a data breach had exposed some of their protected health information (PHI), according to Healthcare Informatics.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 23, 2018

Equifax faces £500,000 fine in the UK over massive data breach

UK officials have slapped Equifax with a £500,000 (US$660,000) fine for failing to protect up to 15 million citizens' personal data. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced its verdict after almost a year-long investigation with the Financial Conduct Authority.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2018

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