Human services minister of Australia Alan Tudge downplayed the sale of Medicare information by a darknet vendor after facing flak from privacy group and the opposition, News page The Guardian reported on Tuesday that Medicare details can be bought from a darknet trader upon request. The...
Facebook is under suspicion of compelling its users to provide information for targeted ad placement. Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has launched a probe investigating if Facebook is indeed using its influence to force users into accepting terms and conditions they may not fully comprehend. A lawyer at...
Last April, a massive 13 gigabytes of data was made available for a few days by the motoring company AA Shop. The UK-based motoring shop declared that no sensitive information was included in the cache that was publicly viewable. However, Troy Hunt of “Have I Been...
A lawsuit alleging Facebook of tracking user activity after logging out has been dismissed by a U.S judge. Edward Davila, U.S District Judge in San Jose, California said that the plaintiffs were unable to provide reasonable privacy expectations. They also did not suffer any legitimate economic...
An 18-year-old student from northwestern England has been arrested on charges of cyber assault that affected a number of multinational companies. Jack Chappell has been allegedly responsible for supplying software that floods websites with data, causing it to crash. He has also been accused of...
The United Kingdom’s Information Commission (ICO) ruled that the UK-based hospital inadequately protected their patients’ privacy. The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust has been reprimanded by the ICO because of mishandling data during a testing phase of a new way of detecting kidney injuries. The...
A data leak involving the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test 2017 (MHT-CET 2017) has resulted in the sale of the personal information of its roughly 107,000 student-takers to engineering and pharmacy colleges. An agency named Career Calling Education Consultancy has been sending out emails to engineering and...
According to the police, Goldenwest Credit Union may be partly responsible for a data leak that resulted in a number of fraudulent credit card transactions made in Cache and Box Elder counties. Two Cuban nationals have been arrested in relation to the assumed fraud. Security footage...
Recent cryptocurrency fraud and scams have made a growing number of user worried about how their digital wallets are protected. Blockfolio, a cryptocurrency portfolio site has released a new privacy statement in the wake of recent claims saying the company has downloaded client data, “snooping...
Retailers across Europe and the U.S are implementing a new technology that spies on customer behavior. The tech can point out if a customer is unable to find an item, see how they react to products, if they require help, and even weed out thieves. A...