#data-breaches

#data-breaches

T-Mobile US today said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers.A regulatory filing [PDF] disclosed one or more miscreants were able to access potentially the "name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number and information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features" of each affected customer.

Are you looking for an exciting and challenging career that is in high demand?Look no further than cyber security.With the increasing frequency of cyber attacks and data breaches, companies and organizations are in desperate need of skilled cyber security professionals to protect their networks and data.

TechnologyUnited States of America 01/20/2023January 20, 2023 Less than a year after settling a data leak lawsuit was settled for $350 million, T-Mobile has reported that details of 37 million customers were hacked.The Telecom company T-Mobile revealed on Thursday that the data of 37 million customers was hacked in November 2022.

In today's ExchangeWire new's digest: Google may be forced to sell off part of its ad tech business; Apple threatens to remove Damus from the App Store over Bitcoin tipping; and a study finds that the majority of APAC consumers prefer dealing with companies who collect their data directly.Google may have to break up ad business
Google may have to sell part of its ad tech business after the EU Commission ruled that it had engaged in anti-competitive practices.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Highland over a "serious breach of trust" after the health service inadvertently exposed personal details of patients likely to be accessing HIV services.The incident unfolded when someone at the organisation emailed 37 individuals likely to be accessing HIV services, inadvertently copying their email addresses into the carbon copy (CC) field rather than the blind carbon copy (BCC) field.

1Password is announcing today that, one day soon, it will support the option to create and unlock 1Password accounts using biometric-based passkey technology, ditching the feature that is the name of its entire product."For passkeys to be the way forward, it's not enough for them to replace some of your passwords," said 1Password chief product officer Steve Won.

When Amazon released Alexa in 2014, the company had big dreams for the technology.The voice assistant, the company suggested, could succeed smartphones as the next essential consumer interface.Alexa, which was embedded in Amazon's voice-activated Echo smart speakers, soon became one of the most popular voice assistants, alongside Apple's Siri and Google's Assistant.

Mirantis, cloud-native infrastructure expert, just announced the release of the latest version of their virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK), with improved OpenStack security and enhanced user experience.OpenStack, the world's foremost open-source, private cloud IaaS framework, offers a feature-rich environment for hosting virtual machines, networks, and storage.

If you need to protect sensitive information and follow data privacy regulations, it's critical to obfuscate your log data, which means obscuring personally identifiable information (PII).But effectively concealing PII in logs might take time to implement, can increase compute resources, and might not work well with all types of logs.

T-Mobile on Monday said it experienced a hack that exposed account PINs and other customer data in the company's second network intrusion this year and the ninth since 2018.The intrusion, which started on February 24 and lasted until March 30, affected 836 customers, according to a notification on the website of Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey.

Age verification systems are surveillance systems.Mandatory age verification, and with it, mandatory identity verification, is the wrong approach to protecting young people online.It would force websites to require visitors to prove their age by submitting information such as government-issued identification.

Acer has confirmed someone broke into one of its servers after a miscreant put up for sale a 160GB database of what's claimed to be the Taiwanese PC maker's confidential information."We have recently detected an incident of unauthorized access to one of our document servers for repair technicians," an Acer spokesperson told The Register on Tuesday.

A ransomware attack compromised the data of current and former employees at Canada's biggest bookstore chain, Indigo Books & Music Inc. says.In a statement on its website, Indigo said the breach on Feb. 8 left no indication that personal customer information, such as credit card numbers, had been accessed, but that "some employee data was."