Tag: PII
Plex Data Breach: Personal Data of Some Users Got Stolen
One of the popular home media players - Plex, has disclosed a data breach today, resulting in some customer data being lost in the...
TA558: A Hacker Targeting Hotels to Steal Customer Data and Money
A threat actor tracked as TA558 is seen fiercely targeting hospitality companies, especially hotels, to steal their customer data and eventually their money.
Using carefully...
PII of Over One Billion People Put Up For Sale in Dark Web
An unknown hacker is spotted selling a database containing over one billion records - in a popular underground marketplace for 10 bitcoin.
The details include...
MyEasyDocs Exposed PII of Thousands of Students
Researchers at vpnMentor discovered an unsecured Azure database belonging to MyEasyDocs, an Indian company that leaked PII and academic details of thousands of students.
Affected...
Google Will Now Remove PII From Its Search Results Upon Request
Google said it's expanding the search results removal requests to include the personally identifiable information now.
These include a person's phone number, email, or physical...
Sennheiser Data Leak: Sensitive Information of Over 28,000 Customers Exposed
Sennheiser, the famous audio gadget maker, had left one of its Amazon S3 buckets open, exposing sensitive data of over 28,000 customers.
Though this was...
Omicron Based Phishing Campaign in Wild, Stealing PII and Banking Details
The UK consumer watchdog - Which? has detailed a new phishing campaign based on the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron.
The ongoing campaign targets people in...
WSpot Error Exposed Identifiable Data of Over 2.5 Million Customers
WSpot, a WiFi management software, has exposed 10GB of identifiable data belonging to its clients and their customers.
This was spotted by SafetyDetectives, who saw...
Robinhood Data Breach: Hacker Accessed Data of 7 Million Customers
Robinhood, the American financial services platform has disclosed a data breach incident yesterday, which actually happened earlier this month.
The company reported an unauthorized party...
Signal Was Ordered to Share Identity Details of One of its Users
Signal, the privacy-focused instant messenger wrote in a blog post today that, how far the US law enforcement would go for tracking a person.
As...