A healthcare provider based in the US state of Ohio has released a statement saying it fired an employee for snooping in on patients’ records, showing...
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In a disconcerting security warning, Google is saying videos stored in some users’ Google Photos archive were incorrectly sent to other users who requested a...
Snapchat’s 186 million users may be in for a rude awakening today after revelation that multiple employees of the social media giant were able to abuse...
A third-party vulnerability exposed admission records, essays, transcripts and sensitive personal information of Stanford University students, including Social...
Huntsville Hospital in Alabama announced that the personal data of job applicants may have been compromised after a security incident at the recruitment...
British intelligence agency GCHQ was found guilty of violating the European Convention on Human Rights, the European court of human rights in Strasbourg said...
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank admitted losing years’ worth of data backup containing the financial details of some 12 million customers. When the breach...
LinkedIn joins the data privacy breach club after a researcher detected a major vulnerability in the AutoFill plugin – that allows members to autofill their...
Dating social network Grindr admitted sharing users’ sensitive information with third parties as this is “industry practice.” The data was encrypted and...
Recent concerns raised by a German think tank about smart toys serving as illegal surveillance tools were not far-fetched, as over 2 million personal voice...