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fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Who can get money from Kaiser Permanente data breach settlement?

Check the inbox of the email account Kaiser has on file for you. On Monday, Jan. 12, emails were sent from Settlement Administrator with the subject line Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement Kaiser Privacy Breach Settlement. Copy the Class Member ID Number that's at the top of the email, then click the link for the settlement website. There you can select the Online Claim Form tab and fill out the required form. The deadline to submit it is March 12.
Healthcare
Privacy technologies
fromWIRED
2 months ago

A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers

Researchers extracted 3.5 billion WhatsApp phone numbers and associated profile data by bulk querying contact discovery due to WhatsApp's insufficient rate limiting.
US politics
fromGothamist
3 months ago

A firestorm in NJ over release of Sherrill's naval records. Whose campaign is hurt most?

An improper National Archives release exposed Rep. Mikie Sherrill's personal naval records, fueling controversy and an inspector general probe amid New Jersey's governor's race.
Information security
fromMail Online
3 months ago

Stranger watching woman through Ring camera sparks warnings for others

A Ring doorbell camera was accessed so a stranger could speak through it, illustrating risks from weak passwords and lack of multi-factor authentication.
Information security
fromTechzine Global
4 months ago

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats accidentally published

Grok's share feature automatically created publicly indexable URLs, exposing hundreds of thousands of user conversations—including personal data and instructions for illegal activities—to search engines.
fromTheregister
5 months ago

Boffins: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft

AI chatbots are widespread in many different sectors as they can provide natural and engaging interactions. We already know these models aren't good at protecting information.
Privacy technologies
Privacy technologies
fromwww.bbc.com
5 months ago

Hackers steal images from women's dating safety app that vets men

Tea Dating Advice app suffered a security breach exposing 72,000 user images and posts, including sensitive verification photos.
fromMiami Herald
6 months ago

Miami-Dade fire lieutenant accused of secretly filming colleagues in station bathrooms

Detectives arrested a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue lieutenant for secretly videoing colleagues inside fire station bathrooms, accumulating over 600 clips on a disguised camera.
Miami
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
8 months ago

Blue Shield shared 4.7M people's health info with Google Ads

Blue Shield of California unknowingly shared sensitive health information of 4.7 million members with Google, raising serious privacy concerns.
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