California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details
The San Francisco Standard :
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days
Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users' personal details, the genetic testing company changed …
Uber fined ~$1.17M by British and Dutch authorities for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed the personal details of 2.7M British and 174K Dutch users
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Uber fined ~$1.17M by British and Dutch authorities for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed the personal details of 2.7M British and 174K Dutch users
- Uber was fined a combined $1.17 million by British and Dutch authorities Tuesday for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed …
UK payday lender Wonga says personal data of up to 270K customers may have been stolen in a data breach
Personal details from hundreds of thousands of accounts may have been illegally accessed, admits payday lender — More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga …
US shuts down biggest torrents site KickassTorrents, arrests owner after Apple hands over his personal details
With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.
Comcast settles with California for $33M after posting personal details of 75K customers online
Yashaswini Swamynathan / Reuters :
Comcast settles with California for $33M after posting personal details of 75K customers online
Yashaswini Swamynathan / Reuters :
FTC charges data broker LeapLab with selling consumers' financial details to fraudsters
Data Broker Is Charged With Selling Consumers' Financial Details to ‘Fraudsters’ — Federal regulators are cracking down on information resellers who hawk personal details about consumers to companie...