In 2013, Yahoo! Inc. announced what was at the time the largest data breach in history. Over 3 billion Yahoo accounts were exposed including security questions, emails and first and last names. Now, over 6 years later, a class action settlement has been proposed. The company will devote $117.5 million to services and reimbursements for […]
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If you are one of the millions of consumers who use a voice-activated assistant in your home or through your smartphone, your personal data and activity may become more secure due to new AI data privacy regulations like the European Union’s GDPR and recent privacy-related legislation. Virtual assistants and chatbot tools will now have to
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Thousands of schools and students were recently affected by the Pearson data breach. Educational software developer Pearson announced that it suffered a data breach of its AIMSweb platform. The FBI first alerted Pearson to the issue, and after investigating, the company discovered approximately 13,000 educational institutions’ AIMSweb accounts were breached by an unknown individual. There
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With the recent Equifax data breach settlement, as well as the large Capital One breach, many people are asking questions about credit monitoring services. Should I use them? What are its benefits? The conversation really gained steam when Equifax began offering free credit monitoring services to people impacted by their breach. Credit monitoring services are
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A newly reported LAPD data breach has affected thousands of police officers and officer candidates in the Los Angeles Police Department. According to the announcement, the information included names, email addresses, birth dates and parts of their Social Security numbers, which led officials to believe it may have been information that was used to set
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced July 24, 2019, that they have reached a settlement with Facebook, Inc. The social media giant received the largest fine in history for violating consumer privacy and were ordered to pay $5 billion – roughly 20 times the last largest fine of this kind. This comes less two years
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The internet may be abuzz once again with users sharing images from their FaceApp filters, but security experts are treading carefully. The AI-powered photo editing app, which provides fun filters to enhance your pictures of your face, became a viral sensation when it launched in 2017. When it first became popular, FaceApp had a fairly
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Savvy online shoppers look forward to the charitable Christmas in June, Amazon Prime Day, but scammers look forward to this event, too. Amazon scams account for a significant percentage of internet retail fraud, making it important that consumers know what to look for. Armed with the ability to spot an Amazon scam, you can work
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The Federal Trade Commission has been tackling the plague of robocalls for a long time and has had victories against this menace in the past. Now, a new report demonstrates that their initiative has had even more successful results. The program has been taking aim at robocallers and reminding them that their actions are illegal,
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