The Ashley Madison hack has been something of a side show in the data breach community because of the supposed “comedy” of cheating spouses being caught. But it appears there is now some real fallout from the hack. People who were online, now find themselves…
In 2014, Visionworks, an eye care retailer, misplaced two computer servers that potentially had sensitive personal information. Bloomberg reports that they have now settled with the Maryland Attorney General over these poor practices: While upgrading to fully encrypted servers at its stores in Anna
Data breaches have moved from the financial industry, to the healthcare industry, and in a matter of months hackers seem focused on the travel industry now. United Airlines announced a data breach that was linked by some to the same group of Chinese hackers that…
Chinese hackers have been implicated again in another cyber attack on US Soil, this time with the United Airlines hack. The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around…
It has been well-known now that in April 2015, the Office of Personnel Management suffered a data breach of millions of government employees’ and contractors’ personal information. Since that time, the Director of OPM has stepped down, and the government has begun to send notices…
Imagine driving down the highway and all of a sudden your radio – magically! – starts changing its own channel. Then, your wipers go. You chuckle. However, then your GPS system tells you that you are in a far away land from your true location,…
In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission settled its complaint with LifeLock over alleged deceptive claims and practices made with regards to LifeLock’s Identity Theft Protection and Data Security Claims. Now, the FTC is charging that LifeLock failed to live up to the terms of the agreement.…
The latest data breach seems to have come from CVS Photo online and currently the site is offline. The offline site now states: We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been…
The Assistant News Editor at Upstart Business Journal recently noticed something unexpected about the way the Google Photos App worked on his smart phone. The News Editor had previously decided that he didn’t want Google Photos auto-uploading pictures he took on his phone to the…
The non-profit consumer advocate Consumer Watchdog filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission regarding Google’s search engine practices. Google’s failure to offer U.S. users the ability to request the removal of search engine links from their name to information that is inadequate, i
Last week the New York Attorney General’s Office revealed an investigation that showed that Whole Foods was overcharging customers on as many as eighty of its pre-packaged meals. Yesterday, Whole Foods admitted that it had made mistakes and apologized for the errors in overcharging according…
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, also known as EPIC, has taken an account of Uber’s new privacy policy. Uber has a long history of privacy related complaints, most notably the allegation that an Uber executive spied on a journalist who was preparing an unflattering story…
