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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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T-Mobile data breach: CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) exposed

Security Affairs

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. ” reads the statement published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation.

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Meta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure

Malwarebytes

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. Last year, Instagram received a record fine of $400m for the abuse of children’s data.

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After hackers blackmailed their clients, Finnish therapy firm declares bankruptcy

Hot for Security

Vastaamo, the Finnish psychotherapy practice that covered up a horrific security breach which resulted in patients receiving blackmail threats, has declared itself bankrupt.

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Krebs on Security

In July, DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) suspended all federal contracts with Perceptics , a contractor which sells license-plate scanners and other border control equipment, after data collected by the company was made available for download on the dark web.

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UK data watchdog wants to tackle cookie pop ups to protect personal data

CyberSecurity Insiders

Already, the cookies acceptance feature has been part of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation that came into effect in May 2018. By doing so, ICO wants to aim for a unified data protection for all web users in European Union. Note- GDPR allows web users to export their data and delete it as per their choice.