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HIGHLIGHTS Facebook is unlikely to compensate 2.7 million European users Their data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica Sensitive bank account data had not been shared: Facebook Facebook is unlikely to compensate the 2.7 million European users whose data was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica because sensitive bank account data had not been shared, the company said on Wednesday. The world’s ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Hackers used malware to steal payment data from Chipotle restaurants Chipotle said it did not know how many customers were affected Stolen data included account numbers and internal verification codes Hackers used malware to steal customer payment data from most of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc’s restaurants over a span of three weeks, the company said on Friday, adding to ... Read More »

DENVER — Swiping could be the thing of the past. Just ask any cyber security expert, like Chris Rothe with Red Canary, a cyber security company based in Downtown Denver. “The stripe is old technology. It’s a magnetic strip that encodes basically just your credit card number pretty much in plain text.” Chipotle is the latest company making headlines after ... Read More »

Hitachi Payments Services today accepted its systems were compromised by a sophisticated malware in mid-2016, that led to one of the biggest cyber-security breaches in country with 3.2 million cards affected and a scare over security of card-based transactions. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had said over 600 customers had reported losses of at least Rs 1.3 crore ... Read More »

Photo Credit: Angela Weiss/ AFP No, Britney Spears is not dead. Yet her fans’ hearts may have skipped a beat today when tweets purportedly from Sony Music Entertainment said “RIP @britneyspears #RIPBritney 1981-2016” and “Britney spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon #RIPBritney.” The real Sony Music Entertainment quickly deleted those tweets and issued a terse ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS EU sent letters to WhatsApp and Yahoo Said they had concerns about WhatsApp’s recent change in privacy policy Asked Yahoo to communicate all aspects of the data breach European privacy watchdogs said on Friday they had sent letters to WhatsApp over its sharing of information with parent company Facebook and Yahoo over a 2014 data breach and its scanning ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS 3.2 million debit card users vulnerable after security breach in India Apple sends media invites for Oct 27 event, where new Macs are expected Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is still being used by 1 million people From the 3.2 million debit cards in India being exposed thanks to a security breach and Apple’s upcoming new Macbooks to Samsung Galaxy ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS LinkedIn in May had confirmed the 2012 data breach Approximately 6.5 million passwords were reset in 2012 LinkedIn says the hacker has been arrested LinkedIn Corp. said a Russian man arrested by Czech police for alleged hacking was probably involved in the 2012 breach of its professional networking site that compromised more than 6 million users’ passwords. Czech police ... Read More »

Dropbox Confirms 2012 Breach Bigger Than Previously Known HIGHLIGHTS Dropbox in August asked users to reset their passwords Dropbox acknowledged a 2012 data breach compromising 69 million accounts However, the company says Dropbox accounts have not been misused Dropbox confirmed Wednesday that a data breach discovered and disclosed in 2012 was bigger than previously known and according to one report ... Read More »

HIGHLIGHTS Hacker also responsible for selling LinkedIn data dumps earlier Yahoo’s exposed considered to be really old Verizon recently bought Yahoo for roughly Rs. 32,500 crores After a hacker going by the name of Peace put up for sale a cache of what’s alleged to be 200 million stolen Yahoo user account credentials earlier this week, the Internet company says ... Read More »