A recent CAM4 data exposure left nearly 11 billion records exposed. A team of researchers uncovered the leak by CAM4, an adult streaming website. According to komando.com, it is estimated that just over 6.5 million of those records were from users in the U.S. The information leaked in the CAM4 data exposure included full names, […]
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Multi-billion dollar education tech company Chegg—which specializes in digital and print textbook rentals, as well as online homework help solutions—announced it suffered another data breach. This Chegg data breach impacted approximately 700 of its employees. It marked the third data breach of Chegg or its acquisitions since 2018. Unlike the 2018 Chegg data breach, which
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Nearly 25,000 public health organization employees had their email addresses and passwords exposed after they were dumped online. According to the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. – based hacker activist is the likely source of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Health (NIH) and World
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It is more important than ever that consumers use strong security questions with strong security answers on their online accounts. With most people home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more consumers are required to shop online to do their food and household purchasing. That means a lot of online accounts have been and will continue
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Schools, businesses and individuals are making drastic changes right now due to concerns surrounding COVID-19. Some of the protective measures, such as social distancing and self-isolation, translate to technology picking up the slack to keep businesses and education moving forward. However, that is leading to child privacy issues particularly using technology not originally intended to
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Two financial companies that appear to be connected were the apparent leakers of a financial database leak of important client and employee data. The database was linked to the MCA Wizard app, which was created by Argus and Advantage. According to vpnMentor, who discovered the unsecured information online, Argus and Advantage had stored more than
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There are many different ways a person’s information can be stolen in a data breach. General Electric (GE), one of the largest electronics companies in the world, announced that it had information of current and previous employees’ exposed through a Canon data breach. On February 28, 2020, GE was notified that there was a third-party
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The Marriott hotel property chain has announced that they discovered a data breach at the end of February that affected an estimated 5.2 million guests of the hotel. The information that was accessed by unauthorized hackers in the Marriott breach included names, email addresses and phone numbers, age and gender information, and even some data
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UPDATED 12/8/2020– With so many people working and socializing from home, more than just businesses – employees, families and friends – are trying to find a place to gather (hold virtual meetings, religious services, game nights, birthday parties and happy hours). Zoom has become “that meeting place” for most. According to the Chief Executive of
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