Sentences with phrase «users of the data breach»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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....

Web site security and restrictions on use As a condition to your use of Services, you agree that you will not, and you will not take any action intended to: (i) access data that is not intended for you; (ii) invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal information about any other user of this web site; (iii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of this web site or Wellington Management's network or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (iv) attempt to interfere with service to any user, host, or network or otherwise attempt to disrupt our business; or (v) send unsolicited mail, including promotions and / or advertising of products and services.

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.

Even before the data breach came to a head, Facebook has begun to remedy the issues by making changes to its privacy policies, implementing stricter standards for third - party applications, and doubling the headcount of employees who work to protect user security.

Uber announced on Nov. 21 that the personal data of 57 million users, including 600,000 drivers in the United States, were stolen in a breach that occurred in October 2016, and that it paid the hacker $ 100,000 to destroy the information.

The recent data breach impacting 150 million user accounts of Under Armour's MyFitnessPal application and website offers important lessons for mobile app developers, security expert Joan Pepin explains in this interview.

And while the beginning of 2018 has seen the network's trust put into question amid a large - scale data breach, projections still see Facebook's user base increasing well into 2019.

Web site Security As a condition to your use of this Web site, you agree that you will not, and you will not take any action intended to: (i) access data that is not intended for you; (ii) invade the privacy of, obtain the identity of, or obtain any personal information about any other user of this Web site; (iii) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of this Web site or MFS» network or breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (iv) attempt to interfere with service to any user, host or network or otherwise attempt to disrupt our business; or (v) send unsolicited mail, including promotions and / or advertising of products and services.

The purpose is pretty obvious; it will reward the users who report any data breach or misuse of data by app developers.

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has been known to police itself since its inception, but in the wake of ongoing data breach scandal, the social media giant has decided to cut user some slack.

It would also make internet companies liable for any kind of leak or breach that allows private user data to be shared, which would potential have made Facebook itself liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Facebook, meanwhile, has sought to explain that the mishandling of user data was out of its hands and doesn't constitute a «breach» — a definition that would require the company to alert users about whether their information was taken, per U.S. Federal Trade Commission rules.

On users part, to avoid such kind of data breach being used to target you, you need to be a little more careful about the data permissions you give to your connected apps.

Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information of all 3 billion users was compromised in a series of data breaches.

Popular crowdfunding platform Patreon is the victim of a data breach that exposed its users» information to malicious hackers.

He used the term a «breach of trust» to describe the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political data firm linked to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign gained access to information on some 50 million Facebook users.

«Facebook's defense that Cambridge Analytica harvesting of FB user data from millions is not technically a «breach» is a more profound & damning statement of what's wrong with Facebook's business model than a «breach,»» said University of North Carolina academic Zeynep Tufekci, who is influential on social media topics, on Twitter.