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Dec 18, 2023

Uncovering: US telcos acknowledge retaining and giving away customers' location data

US cell carriers have extensive knowledge of their clients' whereabouts. They have been known to pre...

Nov 25, 2023

81K people's private information stolen from Hilb after their email inboxes were scoured.

Numbers for credit cards, security codes, SSNs, passwords, PINs? Those are scary! Around the beginni...

Nov 11, 2023

The FBI took over the notorious stolen password warehouse Genesis Market

Operation Cookie Monster breaks up stolen data-a-service illegal provider. Genesis.market, a well-kn...

Oct 14, 2023

23andMe Accounts Compromised and Information Offered for Sale on Hacker Forum

On a hacker forum, an anonymous hacker made hundreds of thousands of 23andMe profiles available for...

Sep 30, 2023

1.2 million people's health and payment information may have been stolen from Purfoods in an IT attack

The meal delivery business leaves a bad taste Purfoods has warned over 1.2 million people that...

Sep 16, 2023

Data brokers collect profiles of pregnant women, which are then sold

One thing they all have in common is that they have no concern for an individual's privacy North Ame...

Aug 15, 2023

Watchdog vowed to crack down on the 'harmful' world of data-broker spying

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