At a press briefing last Tuesday, National Privacy Commission (NPC) Commissioner Raymund Liboro said that they will be issuing Uber Philippines a compliance order to demand certain conditions in connection to the company’s data breach which had affected users in the country. Liboro said that...
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology recently announced that they have developed a new app called RIT Cellular Metrics which can measure the actual download speeds of mobile service providers in a particular area and also protect user identity. Professor Clark Hochgraf said that they created...
A popular onscreen keyboard app called AI.type was recently reported to have leaked the private information of 40 million of its users around the world. The app’s server, owned by co-founder Eitan Fitusi, was apparently left unsecured without a password and left the data of Android...
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission recently issued a warning to holiday shoppers to be mindful of features such as recording devices, cameras, and GPS on tech toys for young kids, saying that these could pose a serious privacy and security risk. The DPA pointed out dolls in...
TIO Networks, a payment processor recently acquired by PayPal, revealed last week that it will be suspending operations due to a hacking incident that involved the theft of personal identifiable information (PII) of its 1.6 million users. TIO was bought by PayPal in July 2017 for...
Last December 2, Leakbase.pw announced that it will be discontinuing its service and will be issuing refunds to users who still have some time left on their subscriptions. The site, which sells leaked usernames and passwords from data breaches, has since redirected their domain to HaveIBeenPwned.com,...
Google’s Safe Browsing Team recently announced that it will be flagging Play Store apps which collect personal data without the user’s consent. Developers have been told to provide a clear privacy policy and prompt users if the app will be using their personal user data....
Earlier this week, Wired magazine said that the login issue on MacOS High Sierra that Apple recently issued a patch for may still reoccur on some machines. The bug allowed possible attackers to login with root access to Macs running High Sierra just by using “root”...
The UK High Court recently ruled in favor of Morrisons staff and ordered compensation for the distress the company’s data leak has caused them. Justice Langstaff found the supermarket company to be legally responsible for the leak, and that vicarious liability, not primary liability, had been...
Chris Vickery of security company UpGuard recently divulged that the private information of US citizens in National Credit Federation’s (NCF) database had been leaked due to a misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket. Discovered last October 3, Vickery said that sensitive data kept...