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Data firm execs convicted for helping fraudsters target the elderly

A former senior executive and former sales manager of Epsilon Data Management LLC (Epsilon) were convicted of selling data of millions of Americans to perpetrators of mail fraud schemes.
- Bill Toulas
- June 03, 2024
- 06:37 PM
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- May 22, 2024
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FTC bans one more data broker from selling your location info

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to target data brokers, this time in a settlement with InMarket Media, which bans the company from selling Americans' precise location data.
- Bill Toulas
- January 19, 2024
- 12:13 PM
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Ransomware victims targeted by fake hack-back offers

Some organizations victimized by the Royal and Akira ransomware gangs have been targeted by a threat actor posing as a security researcher who promised to hack back the original attacker and delete stolen victim data.
- Bill Toulas
- January 09, 2024
- 04:09 PM
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MongoDB says customer data was exposed in a cyberattack

MongoDB is warning that its corporate systems were breached and that customer data was exposed in a cyberattack that was detected by the company earlier this week.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 16, 2023
- 05:37 PM
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QNAP warns of critical command injection flaws in QTS OS, apps

QNAP Systems published security advisories for two critical command injection vulnerabilities that impact multiple versions of the QTS operating system and applications on its network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
- Bill Toulas
- November 06, 2023
- 07:47 AM
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Spain arrests 34 cybercriminals who stole data of 4 million people

The Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercriminal organization that carried out a variety of computer scams to steal and monetize the data of over four million people.
- Bill Toulas
- October 23, 2023
- 11:01 AM
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ICO calls on social media firms to protect user's data from scraping

UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), together with eleven data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, have published a statement calling social media platforms to up their protections against data scrapers.
- Bill Toulas
- August 25, 2023
- 12:28 PM
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Ukrainian arrested for selling data of 300M people to Russians

The Ukrainian cyber police have arrested a 36-year-old man from the city of Netishyn for selling the personal data and sensitive information of over 300 million people, citizens of Ukraine, and various European countries.
- Bill Toulas
- April 26, 2023
- 05:35 PM
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Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison

Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.
- Bill Toulas
- May 14, 2022
- 11:18 AM
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