Norton Healthcare Says Ransomware Attack Impacts 2.5 Million
Norton Healthcare has confirmed that the ransomware attack it suffered in May 2023 has exposed the sensitive data of 2,500,000 people. Norton …
Privacy and Security News
Messenger and Facebook Get Signal-Based End-to-End Encryption
Meta has announced the introduction of end-to-end encryption on the Facebook website, and the Messenger app to enhance the privacy of user …
iPhone Keyboard Clones Log User Input Across all iOS Apps
A new threat for iPhone users has emerged involving fake keyboards that look exactly like Apple’s default iOS keyboard and log everything typed on the …
23andMe Says October Breach Impacted 6.9 Million Users
23andMe has confirmed that the security incident in October 2023 directly impacted 14,000 users and indirectly exposed the sensitive data of another …
Staples Stores Business Disrupted from Cybersecurity Incident
Staples had to take some of its order processing and product delivery systems offline to protect its network and its customer data from an unnamed …
LINE Messenger Suffers User Data Breach Caused by Malware Attack
LY Corporation, the operator of the LINE secure messenger, has disclosed a massive data breach caused by a malware attack on service provider NAVER …
Hackers Claim Attack on General Electric, Leak Data Samples
Threat actors have claimed a data breach against multinational tech giant General Electric, leading to accessing confidential information relating to …
RTB Data Leveraged for User Surveillance by Non-State Agencies
Troves of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data used in digital advertising are now systematically abused by spyware makers to track billions of people …
Nothing Retracts iMessage Support Service Over Privacy Concerns
Nothing Chats, a messaging service that promised to give users of Nothing phones the ability to chat with their friends over iMessage as if they would …
Signal Estimates Operational Costs to Reach $50 Million by 2025
Signal says it spends tens of millions of USD yearly to provide a reliable and secure communications platform to users who value their privacy. A post …
Russia Bans Shadowsocks Protocol as VPN Crackdown Continues
The Russian state has added the ‘Shadowsocks’ to its list of blocked internet services, essentially banning the protocol that many users in the …
Tuta Refutes Allegations of it Being a Front for Spy Agencies
Tuta has issued a statement that refutes claims by a former police officer that it operated as a “storefront” for intelligence gathering, …
Signal Messenger Testing Usernames to Replace Phone Numbers
Signal is testing the displaying of Usernames instead of phone numbers to protect people’s privacy while using the popular end-to-end encrypted …
Hacker Boasts Access to Con Edison Customer and Contractor Database
A threat actor claims to have hacked Consolidated Edison (ConEdison), stealing a dataset comprising 500,000 records that expose sensitive information …
Data from 35M LinkedIn Users Freely Shared on Hacking Forum
Update: Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt examined the data in this leak and found it to contain a mix of authentic scraped data from LinkedIn users …