Sentences with phrase «details in a data breach»

Remember the days when the most common scandal was whichever retailer lost your details in a data breach?

Not exact matches

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Equifax Inc, a provider of consumer credit scores, said on Thursday that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and July, in what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.

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.

In September, Equifax reported a massive data breach, saying hackers may have accessed the personal details, including names and Social Security numbers, of more than 143 million consumers from mid-May to July.

In 2015, you witnessed major high - profile security breaches and data thefts, like the 9.7 gigabyte data hacked from Ashley Madison — the data of 32 million users was exposed along with 7 years of credit card and other payment transaction details.

Equifax, a provider of consumer - credit scores, said on Sept. 7 that personal details of as many as 143 million U.S. consumers were accessed by hackers between mid-May and late July, in what could be one of the most significant data breaches ever in the United States.

Every day the scandal only seems to grow in scale as new details emerge about the largest data breach in Facebook's history and their part in it.

On Friday, Facebook's vice president and deputy general counsel, Paul Grewal, said in a detailed statement that a University of Cambridge psychology professor, Aleksandr Kogan, had provided Facebook user data he gained through an app to third - parties, including Cambridge Analytica — a breach of the social media site's policies on protecting people's information.

Elected officials are rushing to respond to the Equifax data hacking scandal in which the personal details of up to 143 million Americans was exposed — potentially one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history.

On Friday, Facebook's vice president and deputy general counsel, Paul Grewal, said in a detailed statement that a University of Cambridge psychology professor, Aleksandr Kogan, had passed Facebook user data he gained through an app on to third - parties, including Cambridge Analytica — a breach of the social media site's policies on protecting people's information.

In a blog post explaining his analysis of the data, and detailing exactly how he verifies hacks, the security expert said: «In the case of Zoosk, they inspected the data and concluded what I had — it was unlikely to be a breach of their system».

Hackers have broken into the vaults of the Japanese video games developer, Square Enix, accessing the details of 25,000 customers in the second major data breach to hit the gaming world in recent weeks.

Access to the full database (which includes private details) is restricted only to myself and I am the only one with access to all of the raw data - this fact alone indicates that this breach of privacy came in the form of an external hack rather than from within Skeptical Science itself.

According to The Guardian, who detail the breach in full, Trump's campaign team paid the analytics company $ 6.2 million, although they deny using Facebook data.

The information security practices detailed in the Privacy Commissioner's Report and the FTC's Stipulated Order are consistent with cyber risk management guidance previously issued by privacy commissioners, regulators and self - regulatory organizations, and with information security practices detailed in regulatory reports and lawsuit settlements relating to other data security breaches.

Given the scale of the data breach, the sensitivity of the information involved, the impact on affected individuals and the international reach of ALM's business, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner jointly investigated ALM's privacy practices at the time of the data breach and on Aug. 22, 2016, published a detailed and damning report that found ALM had contravened the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in myriad ways.

Fresh details have been released concerning JPMorgan's cyberattack — and it has been revealed the data breach is one of the largest in history.

Following up on its earlier warning, the IT Ministry yesterday issued a notice to social networking giant Facebook seeking its response over the user data breach and details of the measures it has put in place to ensure safety and prevent misuse of personal data.

The social network stressed that Kogan obtained the information, which included profile details, such as liked content, in a legitimate manner, but then breached Facebook policy when he passed this data to a third party.

Five days after details about Cambridge Analytica were made public, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, broke his silence on his company's role in the data breach.

More details about the activities that led to one of the biggest data breaches in history are coming to light now that the Department of Justice has indicted four suspects for the 2014 >>

While the official story reported is Mt. Gox was suffering from transaction malleability exploits, (maliciously changing transaction details) the data in both The Willy Report and WizSecs report show strong evidence that it could have been an inside job or a total system breach.

Both companies have also provided little detail about how they operate, and have lost investor money in alleged data breaches.

The reports in The New York Times and The Observer were based on details provided by Christopher Wylie, a 28 - year - old data analytics expert who helped found Cambridge Analytica — the firm at the centre of the alleged data breach — in 2013 and worked there till late 2014.