This year July, facebook settled for a $5billion worth settlement with US Federal Trade Commission for its privacy failures in Cambridge Analytica case. Recently, they have disclosed a group of developers around 100 had access to additional information of people in groups. Malicious apps have leaked personal data of facebook and twitter users to third… Read More »Facebook & Twitter Breach – November 2019
Macy’s is a popular shopping destination and a breach before christmas shopping is a scare. On October 15 it notified customers of a magecart card-skimming device. The unauthorized code on payment page (checkout & wallet) could have accessed name, address, city, phone, email, payment card number, card security code, card month/year of expiration. Why It… Read More »Macy’s Breach November 2019
End of september, Doordash confirmed a data breach which affected 4.9 million customers, workers, merchants. Doordash is a popular food delivery company and their data was stolen by a group of hackers. They also informed, customers who affected after 5 April 2018 were not affected. The breach from data is known to have happened in… Read More »Doordash Breach (4.9 Million Customers Affected)
In early september, Yves Rocher warned about a data leak of millions of its customers. An exposed database left by a third party vendor was the cause of the breach. A server owned by Aliznet (serves IBM, Salesforce, Sephora, Louboutin) had an exposed database of Yves Rocher with millions of customer and their PII exposed.… Read More »Yves Rocher Breach (2.5 Million Canadian Customers Affected)
8 American Cities were affected by this breach. Click2Gov is a popular software solution used by local governments for receiving parking tickets or taxes. The software was developed by Superion. It’s a popular municipality payment software. Gemini said it had found at least 46 compromised U.S. locations and one in Canada, some of those compromises… Read More »Click2Gov Breach (8 American Cities Affected)