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That includes Verizon, which is supposed to pay close to $ 5 billion for the Silicon Valley internet giant's core business and which is also waiting for some actual data about the data breach.

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Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans at the Sohn Conference about Facebook's data breach.

The GDPR carries strict rules for breach notifications, and Uber would probably have broken at least three: not properly protecting the data, not telling regulators about the hack, and not informing its customers until a year later.

While the media glommed on to a few snafus — such as T - Mobile's Sidekick service losing subscribers» data when its cloud supplier's backup systems failed — it's not the number of breaches and failures (which is small) but what it says about providers» practices that is worrisome.

«Yahoo's failure to have controls and procedures in place to assess its cyber disclosure obligations ended up leaving its investors totally in the dark about a massive data breach,» Jina Choi, director of the SEC's San Francisco regional office, said in a statement.

According to Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, about 50 percent of all security incidents — any event that compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of an information asset — are caused by people inside an organization.

By this point, you've certainly heard about the Equifax data breach.

The House Financial Services Committee plans to hold hearings about the data breach, which exposed 143 million customers to identity theft.

Quest Diagnostics, a New Jersey - based medical laboratory company, disclosed a data breach affecting about 34,000 people on Monday.

Recent news of a massive data breach has made some Facebook users wonder: What does Facebook know about me, and how can I control it?

In March 2018, news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

A senior Yahoo executive addressed a massive security incident on Wednesday, offering additional details about a breach that saw hackers steal personal data from more than 500 million customer accounts in late 2014.

Take a spin through the infographic to learn about some of the other data breaches in history and an explanation of how they happened.

A recentAccenture report projects that 1 in 13 patients (about 25 million people) will be a victim of medical ID theft due to provider data breaches.

The data breach, which occurred in October 2016, was not made public until November when Uber quietly published a blog post about the incident.

Hudson's Bay Company, which owns both retail chains, released a statement Sunday about the data breach, noting that it does not impact shoppers who bought items on digital platforms.

As more and more businesses worry about data protection, breaches and security (while cybercrime and DDOS attacks on the rise), it's no wonder all businesses are flocking to the protective arms of IT support companies.

Smith was testifying about Equifax's massive data breach affecting more than 145 million people.

The Target data breach, for example, was not just about credit card numbers.

Another rule will make it mandatory for companies to notify their data protection authority about a data breach within 72 hours of first becoming aware of it.

These days, Mayer is keeping a low profile, though she recently testified before Congress about about Yahoo's massive 2013 data breach.

Consumers have been bombarded by bad news about digital security this year, most recently the massive Equifax data breach revealed in September.

also said his committee intends to hold a hearing about the data breach at a later date, according to The Hill.

Technology website Recode first reported Thursday that Yahoo planned to disclose details about a data breach affecting hundreds of millions of users.

High - ranking U.S. lawmakers want to know more about Equifax's major data breach that has compromised the personal information of tens of millions of U.S. residents.

As incidents involving data breaches by hackers litter the evening news, technophiles and technophobes alike have become more concerned about the security of their data, especially that tied to credit cards and other financial information.

about Will the Equifax Data Breach Finally Spur the Courts (and Lawmakers) to Recognize Data Harms?

«Obviously I am incredibly angry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian,» T - Mobile Chief Executive John Legere said in a note to customers posted on the company's website.

The service will immediately provide you with information about data breaches that might impact you.

The bigger issue is that Facebook had known about the data leak as early as two years ago, but did nothing to inform its users — because the violation was not a «breach» of Facebook's security protocols.

It seems like just about every week we hear of a new data breach affecting millions of people.

The historical app audit was announced in the wake of last month's revelations about how much Facebook data Cambridge Analytica was given by app developer (and Cambridge University academic), Dr Aleksandr Kogan — in what the company couched as a «breach of trust».

Facebook found out about Cambridge Analytica's breach in 2015, but it didn't notify users who had their data taken without their permission.

News about the data breach sparked a public outcry and prompted many of Facebook's 2.1 billion users to reevaluate how they use the massive social media platform, and whether the company should be trusted with so much personal information.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly decided that he will testify before Congress about the data breach scandal engulfing the company.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) brought up specific potential rules and regulations — the Honest Ads Act, which she and other lawmakers put forth in October to institute new rules on political ads, and the idea of requiring companies to inform users of a data breach within 72 hours, which is in a European law that is about to be instituted.

That was the basis the entire company was built on,» Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who went public about the data breach, told the Observer.

But the scope and scale of the data mishandling, coupled with Facebook's failure to inform users when it found about the policy breach in 2015 have played very badly with markets and users alike...

Pressed on why he didn't inform users, in 2015, when Facebook says it found out about this policy breach, Zuckerberg avoided a direct answer — instead fixing on what the company did (asked Cambridge Analytica and the developer whose app was used to suck out data to delete the data)-- rather than explaining the thinking behind the thing it did not do (tell affected Facebook users their personal information had been misappropriated).

SAN FRANCISCO Uber on Thursday plans to announce changes to how it rewards cyber researchers who report flaws in its software, a company executive told Reuters, as part of the ride - hailing firm's response to concerns raised about the way it handled a data breach in 2016.

In 2014, Target and Neiman Marcus were hit with similar criticism for not going public about credit card data breaches until a third - party cybersecurity blog needled the retailers into coming forward.

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April 12 West Virginia's attorney general on Thursday said he had sued Equifax Inc for failing to safeguard its consumer information and delaying in alerting the public to a data breach that exposed the personal data of about 148 million people.

The Equifax data breach has brought up conversations about data ownership, control, and security..

April 12 West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about 148 million people, the state's attorney general said.

There were expected queries regarding the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, about whether Facebook has grown too large and could be considered a monopoly, and how to better regulate the platform.

The centralization of securities data means investors are at much greater risk that their privacy will be breached or confidential information about their investments will be misused.

It brought home the point of why Facebook users are concerned about a data breach and an invasion of privacy.

While we all heard about the Equifax data breach, there are plenty of others instances of hackers stealing millions of identities:

It seems like every quarter there's a new story about how hackers breached a major company's cyber-defenses and stole millions of pieces of highly sensitive data.