Sentences with phrase «leaked in data breaches»

By creating a strong, unique password, you're ensuring that passwords leaked in data breaches can't be used to try hacking into other accounts.

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It seems like as each day passes, another embarrassment unfolds in the Sony Pictures security breach saga — from unflattering internal discussions to Sony's ill - advised DDoS counter offensive against the sites leaking their data.

Highlighting the potential scale of the threat, Wright points to the Panama Papers data breach, in which 11.5 million documents were leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca.

«Almost all of the data included in the Equifax breach could be used maliciously, yet the law only protects consumers for leaks of a narrow subset of private data.

Today, Sony agreed to whooping $ 15 million preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit over the PlayStation Network outage and Data Breach of 2011, which lead to leak of personal information belonging to 77 Million subscribers.

Anyway, «a lot» of data has been gathered, breached, lost and leaked in recent months at a rate, it's... Read More

The profession should also become better acquainted with cyber security and data protection in light of increasing threats of data breach and leaks.»

While not a direct breach in the core sense of the word, the leaked data was a considerable breach of trust among Facebook's users — and as Dropbox looks to crack into the enterprise and also continue to win over consumers, it'll likely continue to have to increasingly emphasize security and privacy going forward.

This flies in the face of the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI — the agency responsible for building and maintaining the Aadhaar database) assertion from last November that Aadhaar data is completely «safe and secure and there has been no data leak or breach at UIDAI.»

Zuckerberg last week called the leak a «breach of trust» with users in TV interviews and on his own Facebook page, and has said that if the company is unable to protect user data «we don't deserve to serve you.»

(Newser)-- It's variously being called one of the biggest data leaks in Facebook history and «unequivocally not a data breach.»

In its new investigation, the FTC must determine whether Facebook's response to the data leak amounts to a breach of its 2011 consent order to give «consumers clear and prominent notice» and obtain «consumers» express consent before their information is shared beyond the privacy settings they have established.»

Many, including the The New York Times, called the incident «one of the largest data leaks in the social network's history» and a «breach».

UpGuard, the security firm that discovered the breach (they also discovered the breach at Deep Root Analytics), noted in a blog post: «The revelation of this cloud leak speaks to the sustained danger of process error as a cause of data insecurity, with improper security settings allowing the leakage of sensitive information of millions of Dow Jones customers.»

The firm specializes in writing algorithms that tease out individuals» political leanings and receptiveness to certain kinds of messages (see Facebook Attempts to Explain Data Leak, Denies «Breach»).

Following the news that a company called Cambridge Analytica managed to manipulate votes in favor of Donald Trump in the 2016 election by using leaked Facebook data of at least 50 million people, and coming just as there are new calls for legislation to regulate social media, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement apologizing for the data breach.

The European Union is contacting data protection authorities in its member nations and in the United States to better follow up investigations into whether Facebook breached EU privacy laws when millions of people had their data accessed through a leak.

In Zuckerberg's apology last week, he stated that a quiz app from 2014 «leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» and said it was a breach of trusIn Zuckerberg's apology last week, he stated that a quiz app from 2014 «leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» and said it was a breach of trusin 2014,» and said it was a breach of trust.