Google Photos issue: user’ videos will be obtained by other users
Google Photos can help users back up photos to the cloud for free and it is free, so the app has quite a lot of users. Unfortunately, Google issued a notice saying that Although...
Category: Data Leak
Avast and AVG collect user info and sold it to other companies
Avast, well-known security software from the Czech Republic, is currently losing its reputation. After several data and privacy security crises, the company was once again exposed to problems. When users use the brand’s security...
30,000 cannabis users information was leaked
Medical and recreational marijuana pharmacy database support sales system, THSuite was leaked. This database involves nearly 30,000 users related to the medical and recreational cannabis industry. The database was leaked and found on December...
Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a major security breach
Mitsubishi Electric said that due to a large-scale cyber attack, personal and customer information may be leaked. According to the analysis, Chinese cyber hacking organizations may be involved in the attack. The computers and...
Data breach at P&N Bank in Australia
P&N Bank, the largest bank in Western Australia, suffered a cyberattack, a data breach occurred, and personal information and sensitive account information in its customer relationship management system were exposed. The information exposed includes...
Amazon fires multiple employees who leaked user information
Some employees of Amazon’s smart doorbell product department used their account permissions to access video surveillance data of some users. Amazon fired employees after they discovered that they had abused their rights to access...
Nearly 50,000 healthcare records at Alomere Health hospital leak
Recently, a data leak was reported at Alomere Health Hospital in Minnesota, the United States, which exposed the personal and medical information of 49,351 patients. It is understood that the incident occurred because the...
Hackers attack on US school management software Active Network
Active Network, which provides Web management software for US educational institutions, announced last week that a major security breach had been discovered in its accounting software Blue Bear for schools, and a large number...
U.S. IoT equipment supplier Wyze confirms server leak
Wyze, a U.S. IoT device supplier, publicly acknowledged that its server leaked, affecting nearly 2.4 million customers. The leaked content mainly includes email addresses, nicknames assigned to Wyze webcam, Wi-Fi network SSID identification and...
Facebook fined $1.6 million for improper sharing of user data
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice said on Monday that the US technology giant was fined 6.6 million reais (about $ 1.6 million). Brazil’s consumer protection agency said it found that the data of 443,000...
Researcher gets 17 million users’ phone number using the Twitter app vulnerability
In terms of data and privacy security, although the social network giant Facebook has done poorly, the next Twitter has also encountered various security issues during this period. A few days ago, researchers discovered...
Top 5 huge fines for data breaches over the past decade
The huge fines imposed on data breaches by multiple companies in 2019 indicate that regulators are becoming less tolerant of organizations that fail to properly protect consumer data. In the UK, British Airways suffered...
UAE social app ToTok marks as a spy tool
Similar to WhatsApp and Skype, ToTok which is a user-to-user messaging app in the UAE, claims to be designed to connect with anyone. However, US officials have found the purpose of the app to...
267 million Facebook user accounts and numbers leaked
Since the Cambridge incident last year, well-known social networking Facebook has been leaking constantly, this year will end soon, but Facebook has still not been able to stop the leak. According to information released...
South African IT company Conor leaks 1 million web browsing records
Recently, network security company, vpnMentor discovered that a database containing highly sensitive private information from South African IT company, Conor was exposed. The incident exposed more than 890GB of online activity browsing log data...
Over 752,000 US birth certificate applications leaked
According to a report from TechCrunch, an online company that allowed Americans to obtain birth/death certificates was leaked. More than 752,000 copies of birth certificates for Americans have been found in Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
