Facebook Scrambles to Restrict Access to your Data

Facebook released a newsroom update today outlining their new plan to restrict data access going forward. A Month of Scandals It has been a turbulent month for the social media company. First, it was announced that Cambridge Analytica had performed a breach on Facebook. They did this by obtaining data from an app that tricked …

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Panera Bread Ignored Data Breach Warning, Said it was a “Scam”

Panera Bread has suffered a major data breach, affecting potentially 7 million customers. The data is said to include names, email addresses, and credit card information. What’s worse – the data could have been crawled and indexed with simple automated tools. This wasn’t news to those at the top at Panera Bread. Last summer, a …

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Are The Shadow Brokers Like Snowden? Theory Suggests Insider Hack

By now, most of our readers have heard of the Shadow Brokers, the hacker group who obtained a large trove of data from the National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked information about the NSA’s cyber tools. The cyber tools were apparently stolen from the Equation Group, a cyber attack operation who experts believe are part …

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Fans of Hello Kitty Experience Data Breach

3.3 million people could be affected by a recent data breach of Hello Kitty fans’ information from the website SanrioTown.com. The data included usernames passwords hints, email addresses and other sensitive information like names, birth dates and more. The breached data was publicly available, there was no actual hacking done to obtain this information. A …

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