Sentences with phrase «other personal data belonging»

Equifax, a centralized consumer credit reporting agency for instance, was recently hacked and the attack exposed social security numbers and other personal data belonging to more than 143 million American residents were exposed.

And Congress elected to do nothing after Equifax disclosed in September that hackers exploited a software flaw that the credit monitoring company failed to fix, exposing Social Security numbers, birthdates and other personal data belonging to nearly 148 million Americans.

And Congress elected to do nothing after Equifax disclosed in September that hackers exploited a software flaw that the credit monitoring company failed to fix, exposing Social Security numbers, birthdates and other personal data belonging to nearly 148 million Americans.

Not exact matches

Your account info won't go away immediately, and be aware that Facebook will likely retain some, if not all, of the data you produced for them while you had an account - the information that they track like ads clicked on, interactions with other accounts, etc. will still belong to them, albeit «stripped of all personal identifiers».

Other than empowering State Attorney Generals to investigate and pursue legal action against violating companies, the primary purpose of data breach notification laws is to ensure that if personal information belonging to platform users and service consumers is compromised, then the target of the breach is under obligation to duly notify any person whose data has been leaked.