That massive data breach that hit hotel group Marriott? Now there are clues the hackers behind it were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation. Read the rest
Marriott hack blamed on China
Quora says data breach affects 100 million users
The question-and-answer sharing website Quora says about 100 million users were affected by a hack blamed on a “malicious third party.” Read the rest
Marriott-Starwood data breach: 500 million guests may be affected, hackers active since 2014
How bad is the Marriott/Starwood breach disclosed today? "Unauthorized access to the Starwood network since 2014 … For approximately 327M of these guests, the info includes some combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number.”
Marriott says information from as many as 500 million people has been compromised, and credit card numbers and expiration dates of some guests may have been taken. Read the rest
Facebook: Hackers got (very) personal data from 29M users. FIND OUT if your info was breached.
The good news: Facebook downgrades the number of accounts hit in the breach they disclosed two weeks ago to 29 million, down from 50 million. The bad news: Uh, that's still a LOT. And if you were one of those 29 million Facebook users, A LOT of your intimate personal data was stolen. Read the rest
Facebook: 50 million users’ personal information exposed in mega breach
Facebook says an attack on its network left the personal information of some 50 million users—perhaps you?—exposed to hackers. Who were the hackers, and what did they want? Facebook doesn't know, or won't say. But the company has confirmed that execs Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sanders were among the users affected.
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg said about Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year.
Well. You heard the man. Read the rest
MyHeritage leaks data of 92 million who use the genealogy and family tree website
A security breach affected the MyHeritage website, and leaked the personal information of over 92 million users, the Israeli company said Tuesday. Read the rest
Facebook gave user data to 'at least 4 Chinese companies,' including tech giant ID'd as security threat by U.S. intel
Despite Mark Zuckerberg's internal war on transparency, the Facebook data abuse reveals just keep on coming. Read the rest
SEC fines Yahoo (now Altaba) $35 million over massive data breach
How the once mighty have fallen. Read the rest
How did an Ohio inmate get prison administrators' usernames and passwords?
Ohio authorities are investigating how a prisoner obtained a list of the usernames and passwords for prison administrators. Read the rest
With faked degrees, U.S. tech official ran law enforcement data systems for years. Then he resigned, got a new gov job.
“A key Interior technology official who had access to sensitive systems for over five years had lied about his education, submitting falsified college transcripts produced by an online service.”
US Army National Guard reveals they, too, recently suffered data breach
The compromised data includes Social Security Numbers, Dates of Birth, and Home Addresses.
US says hackers stole Social Security numbers from 21.5 million people in OPM data breach
The new number is a lot higher than the 14 million figure investigators offered last month.
Radio Shack bankruptcy update: most customer data will be destroyed, not sold to pay creditors
When electronics retailer Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, the chain proposed selling customers' personal data to raise cash and repay creditors. That's not gonna happen, and the news is seen as a win for the right to privacy. Read the rest
Data breach at City College of SF may impact 100,000 students
City College of San Francisco's computers have been infected with software viruses that illegally transmit personal data from students and employees overseas, school officials said today. (MSNBC) Read the rest
