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Tag: breach

  • 500M LinkedIn Profiles

    Just after Facebook lost 500M user profiles to the public Internet, it’s LinkedIn’s turn a week later. Wherever data is collected, data is subject to breach or theft. Like the Facebook incident earlier this week, the information — including user profile IDs, email addresses and other PII — was scraped from the social-media platform. From…

  • Facebook lost phone numbers

    Again, it’s Facebook, that made news with a data breach. TechCrunch reported first about midnight Euroean time, but it’s all over the news by today, noon. It’s time to realize social media is a mistake.

  • What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack

    Earlier this week, it became public that Capital One was victim to a privacy leak, affecting more than 100 million of their customers. News revealed details about the source of the attack, that apparently an individual conducted and bragged about it publicly. Now, a few days later and more facts known, the always excellent Krebs…

  • Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices

    Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices. In short: because there is no reliable metric to make the impact transparent to shareholders and customers. via Harvar Business Review.

  • MongoDB with no protection

    Students at the “Universität des Saarlandes” found almost 40k MongoDB instances, apparently with no security at all. Access to these databases includes write credentials. Universität des Saarlandes:  Aktuelles aus Studium und Forschung.