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It took almost a year for them to acknowledge the data breach but one of the most famous names in the hotel industry has revealed that it was struck by a massive data breach and while the hotel is remaining silent about the severity, separately, experts claim that 10.6 million consumers were exposed.
The 2017 Equifax data breach that exposed the identities of nearly every adult in America was undertaken by the Chinese Army according to the US DOJ which issued warrants for the arrest of four members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The sophisticated attack leveraged poor security by the credit bureau.
Last December, Wawa, the popular east coast-based chain of convenience stores and gas stations revealed a data breach that affected each of its 850 locations and exposed the identities and credit cards of 30 million customers. That data is now for sale on the dark web by hacker group Joker’s Stash.
The private email and phone numbers and contact info for more than 49 million Instagram Influencers was uncovered in an unprotected, unencrypted database hosted on Amazon Web Services. The Influencers, the social media term for accounts with many followers, include celebrities and International brands.
Data Breaches involving millions of consumers are becoming commonplace but last week two researchers uncovered a massive database of very detailed consumer records with no clear owner. Hosted on a Microsoft cloud server, the data deals with 80 million households headed by Americans over the age of 40.
A GPS-enabled SmartWatch used by Parents to track and communicate with their children (and elderly parents) has been shown vulnerable to hackers who can use to track the child’s location, falsify the location to parents add themselves as a parent and view information association with the account.
California’s AG is proposing expanding the state’s Data Breach notification law to require businesses to notify consumers when their passport or biometric data such as fingerprint or retina information is exposed. This extends the list of protected data beyond SSN, driver’s license, medical and other personal records.
There’s never been a data breach like it and it’s difficult to fully appreciate its severity. The hack of Quora exposed 100 million users accounts that contain a wealth of detailed and perhaps unique personal information found nowhere else on the Internet, exposing them to serious risks ahead including blackmail. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo admitted …
This week Marriott disclosed a four-year-long data breach of the personal information of its hotel guests. It’s unclear how the breach occurred or why it took so long to come to their attention but the scope of the breach makes it one of the most troubling data breaches in history. Undiscovered Due to Neglect Marriott …
Just days before Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the unofficial kickoff of the Holiday shopping season in the United States, online retail giant Amazon is tight-lipped about what appears to be a massive data breach involving consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom and across Europe. The stock price of the company has already …
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