by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The scandals never stop for Facebook. This time, it is Facebook-owned Instagram with a massive data leak that may have compromised about 49 million Instagram accounts. According to TechCrunch, security researcher Anurag Sen stumbled upon a public AWS database that...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Twitter apologized to its users last May 14 in a blog post after it admitted that it had inadvertently shared user location data with its advertising partner. Twitter said that the bug the caused the data collection has been fixed. Trevor Mogg added some details about...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Software giant Microsoft wants to simplify data protection for the average user by shifting to an “opt-in” process for privacy settings. This runs counter to the general practice followed by tech giants like Google and Facebook that make users jump through hoops even...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The fallout from massive 2017 data breach that struck credit reporting giant Equifax is still not over. So far, it has cost the company over $1.4 billion and that figure is still expected to rise substantially. Equifax is still the subject of over 1,000 consumer...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against two people who hacked into health insurer Anthem and stole the personal records of at least 78.8 million customers between 2014 and 2015. Named in the indictment was 32-year old Wang Fujie (a.k.a. Dennis) and a...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
More and more hackers are attacking firms for monetary gain according to 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). And these hackers are focusing on small businesses whose cybersecurity defenses are much less sophisticated than bigger companies. Nicole...
