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India's Digital Identity System Aadhaar Data Breached Again!

7 Nov 2023 2 minute read 4 comments Debesh Choudhury

Massive data breach of a national digital ID system! India's Digital Identity system Aadhaar's recent data breach made it clear that Aadhaar is highly security vulnerable and a broken ID system! More than 81 crores (0.81 billion) of Indian citizens'...

Caesars Bungling Notice of Data Breach

4 Nov 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Caesars Rewards Members are receiving notice of the data breach that occurred more than a month prior. The breach occurred in August 2023, but Caesars did not report it to regulatory officials until September 2023 and is finally notifying victims in...

Delayed Reporting of HCA Healthcare Data Breach

11 Jul 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

The recent HCA Healthcare data breach of 11 million patients’ data is shaping up to be another ugly incident where a company did not promptly communicate with its customers. HCA Healthcare is a large American healthcare services organization that co...

Check to See if EMOTET Botnet Has Your Email Password

28 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Happy Privacy Day!  Now go check to see if EMOTET botnet has stolen your email and password.  Europol and a team of global law enforcement have successfully taken down part of the EMOTET botnet infrastructure and seized private data harvested by the...

Ledger Owners Get Threats After Data Leak

15 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Owners of Ledger wallets whose personal information was compromised in the Jun. 2020 leak have begun receiving threats from malicious actors who hold the information.  One Reddit users, Cryptohomie, said that his father had received an email from on...

So Microsoft patented an AI to talk to the dead, ok…

8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ArgentinaPress

It uses a digital version of your loved ones to do so, but how do they get the data...   The project plans the creation of a chatbot or digital copy to recreate the persons’ talking characteristics to bring anyone back to life virtually. It’ll gather...

Ledger Experienced a Data Breach in June

30 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger suffered a data breach in late June, the team revealed in a blog post that was published on July 29. The attack, which targeted the company’s marketing and e-commerce database, has exposed the perso...

BlockFi data breach and the user compensation ($25)

27 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78

As i was telling to you few days ago in this blog post, apparently there was a data breach into BlockFi app, but the problem was solved quick, and no important data was accessed. Just the mailing list for the commercial and marketing purpose (name, e...

Lending Platform BlockFi Suffered a Data Breach, No Fund Lost

20 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan

Cryptocurrency lending platform BlockFi revealed on May 19 that it had suffered a data breach on May 14, though no funds had been lost. Less than half of the platform’s clients had been subject to the breach, which occurred for about an hour. The att...

LastPass Vault Breach - 3 Things Victims Need to do Immediately

2 Jan 2023 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

There are 3 things that LastPass customers need to know and do, to protect themselves from the recent encrypted vault breach!  Consider this a community service video for LastPass users!