50 million
user data breach during 2016 election campaigns has taken place.
Today's topics include calls for social media regulation after a Facebook massive
user data breach, and Huawei and Xiaomi introduce new...
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.
Today's topics include calls for social media regulation after a Facebook massive
user data breach, and Huawei and Xiaomi introduce new high - end smartphone models.
After realizing that his organization made a serious mistake in failing to properly react to
a user data breach, he took full responsibility for his organization's actions, taking out full - page newspaper ads apologizing to Facebook users.
Not exact matches
The SEC said Tuesday that Altaba's payment will settle allegations that the company, when it was known as Yahoo, failed to disclose to investors its knowledge of the huge 2014
data breach that exposed the personal
data of over 500 million
users.
The Securities and Exchange Commission fined Yahoo — well, the business formerly known as Yahoo — $ 35 million for failing to promptly disclose a massive 2014
data breach that affected hundreds of millions of
user accounts.
The social network's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer apologized for the
breach of
users» trust in a statement given to the U.K. parliament's media committee Thursday and admitted in a hearing that Facebook did not read all the terms and conditions of the app that shared
data.
Ashley Madison, a website that facilitates extramarital affairs for married people, suffered an epic
data breach over the weekend, with hackers threatening to release the personal information of its tens of millions of
users.
The two largest were the massive 2013 and 2014 Yahoo
data breaches, which weren't reported to
users until 2016.
Yahoo in September disclosed that it had fallen victim to a
data breach in 2014 that compromised
users» names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords.
Personal
data was stolen from hundreds of millions of Yahoo
users in the December 2014
breach attributed to Russian hackers.
A rash of high - profile digital
breaches and large - scale
data dumps has affected hundreds of millions of
users of prominent websites, with millions more impacted by
breaches of brick - and - mortar businesses.
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?
Verizon and Yahoo reduced the value of the deal by $ 350 million after Yahoo disclosed
data breaches that affected hundreds of millions of
users.
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.
The gist of the
data breach is that River City Media workers failed to properly configure its backup system, which led to Vickery discovering the
user data.
The
data breaches, which involved hackers gaining access to
data for hundreds of millions of Yahoo
users, took place in 2013 and 2014.
Chris Vickery, a MacKeeper security researcher, wrote Monday that he discovered the unsecured
user data in January and worked with security organization Spamhaus and cybersecurity news site CSO Online to further investigate the
data breach.
In particular, in a now - deleted set of tweets, Stamos pushed back against the idea that Cambridge's acquisition of
user data constituted a «
breach.»
More than 87 million Facebook
users»
data were notified Tuesday that some of their personal information was compromised as part of the
breach.
Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common
breaches by hackers, and by pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of
user data it shared with app makers in 2014.
In the same interview, Sandberg acknowledged that Facebook should have notified as many as 87 million
users impacted by the improper access of
data by Cambridge Analytica and its partners, and that the company may discover other, similar
breaches.
Technology website Recode first reported Thursday that Yahoo planned to disclose details about a
data breach affecting hundreds of millions of
users.
The litigation concerns allegations related to two
data breaches in 2014 in which over 1.5 billion Yahoo
user accounts were compromised.
NEW YORK (AP)-- Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a «major
breach of trust,» admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect
user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump - connected
data - mining firm.
Continuous
data breach hacking events might trigger all - time high
user concerns over privacy and security
The company says it has patched the
data breach and added a two - factor authentication feature and a password kill switch to shore up
users» accounts.
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.
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.
Zuckerberg apologised for the
data breach on Monday in a written testimony to US Congress, and will likely repeat that on Tuesday and Wednesday as he faces congressional committees looking into Facebook's management and protection of
user data.
Snapchat is also dealing with the snafus that sometimes afflict young and fast - growing technology companies, including having to apologize for a
breach earlier this year that caused
data such as
users» phone numbers to be exposed.
The interview was one of several that Sandberg gave on Thursday explaining how the Cambridge Analytica
breach took place and taking responsibility for the company's handling of
users»
data, which the company has said were «improperly shared.»
If you see this notification, that means you are one of the millions of
users who were affected by the
data breach.
Social network Facebook Inc. has restricted access to its application programming interface (APIs) after it was revealed that the Cambridge Analytica
data breach has affected 87 million
users, globally, beating the initial estimates of 50 million.
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.
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.
March 17: In an update on the CA suspension Facebook makes a big show of rejecting the notion that any
user data was «
breached».
One lawsuit filed yesterday in Northern California on behalf of a Facebook shareholder, Jeremiah Hallisey, alleges the company's senior management «
breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prevent the initial misappropriation [of
user data by CA] and, after learning of it in 2015, failing to inform affected Facebook
users or the public markets».
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).
Social networking giant Facebook has come in for severe criticism over the past week in connection with an alleged
data breach on its platform which affected 50 million of its
users.
«We're not even one - third of the way through this year and we've already seen Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify on Capitol Hill regarding Cambridge Analytica getting their hands on 87 million Facebook
users» private
data, in addition to 800,000 payment cards getting
breached via travel website Orbitz, and 5 million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor having their credit or debit card
data stolen.And for good measure, news reports continue to surface regarding Russia's meddling in U.S....
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After the deal was announced, Yahoo disclosed that it had discovered two
data breaches in 2013 and 2014 affecting more than 1 billion
user accounts.
Yahoo confirmed last month that
data «associated with at least 500 million
user accounts» had been stolen in one of the largest cybersecurity
breaches ever.
Sports gear maker Under Armour said Thursday a
data breach of its fitness application was hacked, affecting some 150 million
user accounts.
In its blog posts, Facebook has repeatedly focused the blame on Kogan but conceded the
data abuse that took place was a «
breach of trust» with its
users.
It brought home the point of why Facebook
users are concerned about a
data breach and an invasion of privacy.